Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5 vs Iris Xe MAX Graphics

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking624not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.04no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.1 (2020−2021)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameDG1Weston
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date31 October 2020 (4 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768384
Core clock speed300 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1650 MHz891 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate79.2021.38
Floating-point processing power2.534 TFLOPS0.6843 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs4824

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR4XGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2133 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth68.26 GB/s28.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.21.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 October 2020 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 50 Watt

Iris Xe MAX Graphics has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 180% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe MAX Graphics and Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics
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