Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 vs Quadro FX 770M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1204not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.13no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameG96Weston
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date14 August 2008 (16 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$527 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores32384
Core clock speed500 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1021 MHz
Number of transistors314 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate8.00024.50
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.7841 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1624

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.5 (6.0)
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2008 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 50 Watt

FX 770M has 42.9% lower power consumption.

530 Mobile DDR3, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 770M and Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 770M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M
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AMD Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3
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