Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 vs GeForce 720M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGF117Weston
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2013 (11 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 cores96384
Core clock speed625 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1021 MHz
Number of transistors585 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.0024.50
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS0.7841 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1624

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 2.0 x16PCIe 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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s14.4 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2013 18 April 2017
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 50 Watt

GeForce 720M has 51.5% lower power consumption.

530 Mobile DDR3, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 720M and Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 720M
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AMD Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3
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