Radeon 530 vs Quadro M500M

Place in the ranking	773	812
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.99	3.69
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	GM108	Weston
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Release date	27 April 2016 (8 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 cores	384	384
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	730 MHz
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	1024 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	17.98	24.58
Floating-point processing power	0.8632 TFLOPS	0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	8
TMUs	16	24

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 size	large	no data
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	GDDR3	DDR3/GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	14.4 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 Connectors

No outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus	+	-
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.3
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2.131
CUDA	5.0	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro M500M 3.01
+13.6%

Radeon 530 2.65

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Quadro M500M 1163
+13.8%

Radeon 530 1022

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Quadro M500M 2365
+1.6%

Radeon 530 2327

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Quadro M500M 7959
+25.6%

Radeon 530 6338

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Quadro M500M 1595
+3.4%

Radeon 530 1542

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Quadro M500M 8348

Radeon 530 9210
+10.3%

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Quadro M500M 6053
+20.7%

Radeon 530 5015

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Quadro M500M 126522
+17.7%

Radeon 530 107458

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

Quadro M500M 21
+25.6%

Radeon 530 17

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

+0%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7
+20%

5−6

−20%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 −77.8%	16 +77.8%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Battlefield 5	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 −14.3%	8 +14.3%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −66.7%	10 +66.7%
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9 −50%	12 +50%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 −119%	35 +119%
Hitman 3	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +9.5%	21−24 −9.5%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −225%	13 +225%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 −85.7%	13 +85.7%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 −50%	18 +50%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +2.6%	35−40 −2.6%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +0%	9−10 +0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Battlefield 5	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 +0%	7 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 −100%	32 +100%
Hitman 3	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +9.5%	21−24 −9.5%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −25%	5 +25%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 −28.6%	9 +28.6%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +9.1%	10−12 −9.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	20 +53.8%	12−14 −53.8%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +2.6%	35−40 −2.6%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +0%	9−10 +0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 +16.7%	6−7 −16.7%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 +23.1%	12−14 −23.1%
Hitman 3	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +9.5%	21−24 −9.5%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +9.1%	10−12 −9.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +133%	6 −133%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +2.6%	35−40 −2.6%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

7−8
+16.7%

6−7

−16.7%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Far Cry 5	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%
Hitman 3	8−9 +0%	8−9 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20 +20%	14−16 −20%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

6−7

+0%

6−7

+0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Far Cry 5	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	1−2	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

+0%

4−5

+0%

This is how Quadro M500M and Radeon 530 compete in popular games:

A tie in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the Quadro M500M is 133% faster.
in Metro Exodus, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the Radeon 530 is 225% faster.

All in all, in popular games: