AMD Radeon HD 6530: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6530 sales 14 May 2011. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 19.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 165 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 39 Watt.

We have no data on Radeon HD 6530 benchmark results.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6530: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameRedwood
Market segmentDesktop
Release date14 May 2011 (12 years old)
Current price$19.62 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

Radeon HD 6530's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6530's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores400of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed650 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors627 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)39 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate13.00of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance520.0 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6530 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 2.0 x16
Length165 mm
Width1-slot

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6530: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed1200 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6530. 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 support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 6530, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6530. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


We have no data on Radeon HD 6530 benchmark results.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6530 is GeForce GT 730A.

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