Radeon 530X Mobile vs Quadro Plex 7000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGF110Polaris 24
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$14,999 no data

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 cores512384
Core clock speed574 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)600 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate36.7424.58
Floating-point processing power1.176 TFLOPS0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs488
TMUs6424

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length522 mmno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB2 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s36 GB/s

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 Connectors4x DVI, 2x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 600 Watt 50 Watt

Plex 7000 has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

530X Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro Plex 7000 and Radeon 530X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro Plex 7000 is a workstation card while Radeon 530X Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000
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AMD Radeon 530X Mobile
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