Radeon HD 6530D IGP vs Quadro FX 580

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1249not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.73no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG96CSumo
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date9 April 2009 (15 years ago)20 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores32320
Core clock speed450 MHz443 MHz
Number of transistors314 million1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate7.2007.088
Floating-point processing power0.072 TFLOPS0.2835 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1616

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 x16IGP
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data

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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 April 2009 20 June 2011
Chip lithography 55 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 65 Watt

FX 580 has 62.5% lower power consumption.

HD 6530D IGP, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 71.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 580 and Radeon HD 6530D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 580 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 6530D IGP is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
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