Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 vs GeForce GTX 750 GM206
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019) | GCN 3.0 (2014−2019) |
| GPU code name | GM206 | Weston |
| Market segment | Desktop | Laptop |
| Release date | 17 November 2015 (9 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 cores | 512 | 384 |
| Core clock speed | 1087 MHz | 730 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1239 MHz | 1021 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 2,940 million | 1,550 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 39.65 | 24.50 |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.269 TFLOPS | 0.7841 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 32 | 8 |
| TMUs | 32 | 24 |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| Width | 2-slot | no data |
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 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1253 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 80.19 GB/s | 14.4 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 Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI | Portable Device Dependent |
| HDMI | + | - |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_0) |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.5 (6.0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | 1.2.170 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 17 November 2015 | 18 April 2017 |
530 Mobile DDR3 has an age advantage of 1 year.
We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 750 GM206 and Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce GTX 750 GM206 is a desktop card while Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 is a notebook one.
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