ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT vs 530

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking811not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.65no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameWestonM58
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)1 March 2006 (18 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 cores384no data
Core clock speed730 MHz550 MHz
Boost clock speed1024 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,550 million321 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate24.588.800
Floating-point processing power0.7864 TFLOPSno data
ROPs816
TMUs2416

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 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3/GDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz650 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s41.6 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.33.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 1 March 2006
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

Radeon 530 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 530 and Mobility Radeon X1800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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