GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs Radeon 530

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking815not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameMesoAD104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date21 March 2017 (7 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores3847424
Core clock speed1024 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1350 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate24.50313.2
Floating-point performance0.7864 gflopsno data

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 4.0 x16
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/GDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s336.0 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 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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2017 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 60 Watt

Radeon 530 has 20% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 530 and GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon 530
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