RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated10
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.66
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameWestonAD103
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 year 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 cores3847680
Core clock speed730 MHz2070 MHz
Boost clock speed1021 MHz2580 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt210 Watt
Texture fill rate24.50619.2
Floating-point processing power0.7841 TFLOPS39.63 TFLOPS
ROPs880
TMUs24240
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data245 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s432.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.5 (6.0)6.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 210 Watt

530 Mobile DDR3 has 320% lower power consumption.

RTX 4500 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 and RTX 4500 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 is a notebook card while RTX 4500 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3
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