Radeon Graphics 512SP vs 530

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking811not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.65no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameWestonRenoir
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)7 March 2020 (4 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 cores384512
Core clock speed730 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1024 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate24.5867.20
Floating-point processing power0.7864 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2432

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 x8IGP
Widthno dataIGP
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/GDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno data
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 outputsMotherboard 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
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 7 March 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 512SP has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 530 and Radeon Graphics 512SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 530 is a notebook card while Radeon Graphics 512SP is a desktop one.


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