Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 vs 520

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking881not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameOlandWeston
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date21 March 2017 (7 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320384
Core clock speed1030 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1021 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6024.50
Floating-point performance0.6592 gflops0.7841 gflops

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 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x8
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 typeDDR3, GDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz1800 MBps
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan+1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon 520
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