Quadro T1200 Max-Q vs Radeon 530

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking807not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.67no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameWestonTU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 MHz855 MHz
Boost clock speed1024 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate24.5891.20
Floating-point processing power0.7864 TFLOPS2.918 TFLOPS
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
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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s160.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

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 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 18 Watt

T1200 Max-Q has an age advantage of 3 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 177.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 530 and Quadro T1200 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 530 is a notebook graphics card while Quadro T1200 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon 530
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