Radeon 530X Mobile vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900

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
ArchitectureGen. 3 (2005)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGMA 900Polaris 24
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2005 (19 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 cores4384
Core clock speedno data730 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz1024 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data24.58
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1125 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data36 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.3
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2005 18 April 2017
Chip lithography 130 nm 28 nm

530X Mobile has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 and Radeon 530X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900
AMD Radeon 530X Mobile
Radeon 530X Mobile

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