Radeon 680M vs 530X

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	451
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	16.71
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)
GPU code name	Meso	Rembrandt+
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	18 April 2017 (8 years ago)	3 January 2023 (2 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 cores	384	768
Core clock speed	730 MHz	2000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1021 MHz	2200 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	24.50	105.6
Floating-point processing power	no data	3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	32
TMUs	24	48
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	12

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	32 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12.0	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.0	6.7
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
Vulkan	-	1.3

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 April 2017	3 January 2023
Chip lithography	28 nm	6 nm

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