Radeon 530X Mobile vs R5 M430

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking939not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameMarsPolaris 24
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 May 2016 (8 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 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 cores320384
Core clock speed955 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors690 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown50 Watt
Texture fill rate17.1024.58
Floating-point processing power0.5472 gflops0.7864 gflops
ROPs88
TMUs2024

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 3.0 x8

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1746 MHz4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s36 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.21.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2016 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB

R5 M430 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

530X Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M430 and Radeon 530X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 M430
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