FireStream 9250 vs Radeon HD 8530M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated766
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.39
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameMarsRV770
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date10 January 2014 (10 years ago)16 June 2008 (16 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 cores320800
Core clock speed650 MHz625 MHz
Boost clock speed700 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million956 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rate11.2025.00
Floating-point processing power0.448 TFLOPS1 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs1640

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 2.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz993 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s63.55 GB/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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2014 16 June 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm

HD 8530M has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8530M and FireStream 9250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8530M is a notebook card while FireStream 9250 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8530M
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