Radeon 530 vs HD 7730

Place in performance ranking	717	778
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.16	0.59
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	Meso
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	1 May 2013 (11 years ago)	21 March 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$59	no data
Current price	$207 (3.5x MSRP)	$627

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Radeon 530 has 269% better value for money than HD 7730.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	384
Core clock speed	800 MHz	1024 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1024 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	47 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	19.20	24.50
Floating-point performance	614.4 gflops	784.1 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 7730 and Radeon 530 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	168 mm	no data
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	DDR3/GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	28.8 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12.0
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

HD 7730 3.11
+18.3%

Radeon 530 2.63

HD 7730 outperforms 530 by 18% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

HD 7730 1205
+18.6%

Radeon 530 1016

HD 7730 outperforms 530 by 19% in Passmark.