Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5 sales 18 April 2017. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 3.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2019) | |
| GPU code name | Weston | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 18 April 2017 (8 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 730 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 891 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 1,550 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 21.38 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.6843 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 96 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 128 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (6.0) | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.170 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5 is GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
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