GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs Radeon 530

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking812not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.70no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameWestonGM206S
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)2016 (8 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 cores3841024
Core clock speed730 MHz937 MHz
Boost clock speed1024 MHz1203 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate24.5876.99
Floating-point processing power0.7864 TFLOPSno data
ROPs832
TMUs2464

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 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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/GDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s80.19 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon 530 and GeForce GTX 950 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 530 is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 950 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon 530
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