Radeon 530X: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon 530X sales 18 April 2017. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon 530X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameMeso
Market segmentDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon 530X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 530X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed730 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1021 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors1,040 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate24.50of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs8of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs24of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 530X 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 530X: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed4000 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 530X. 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI+

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon 530X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12.0
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.5of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL2.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 530X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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