S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
started S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT sales 20 November 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Chrome architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR2 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 100 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Chrome (2008−2012) | |
| GPU code name | Destination 4 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 20 November 2008 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 625 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 2.500 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0576 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT: 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 type | GDDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 500 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 8 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT. 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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.0 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
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