ATI Graphics Ultra + vs ATI Radeon HD 5530

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameCedarMach32
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 March 2011 (13 years ago)1 January 1992 (32 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed650 MHz10 MHz
Number of transistors292 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm800 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.200no data
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs8no data

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 2.0 x16PCI
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot

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 typeGDDR3DRAM
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed600 MHz10 MHz
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/s80.0 MB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)None
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4None
OpenCL1.2None
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2011 1 January 1992
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 800 nm

ATI HD 5530 has an age advantage of 19 years, a 102300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1900% more advanced lithography process.

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