Radeon 680M vs 530X

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated447
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.70
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)
GPU code nameMesoRembrandt+
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 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 cores384768
Core clock speed730 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed1021 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate24.50105.6
Floating-point processing powerno data3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2448
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed4000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


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

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 530X and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 530X is a desktop graphics card while Radeon 680M is a notebook one.

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