Radeon RX Vega Mobile vs 530

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	810	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.66	no data
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Weston	Vega Mobile
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	18 April 2017 (7 years ago)	7 January 2018 (6 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 cores	384	1792
Core clock speed	730 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1024 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,550 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	90 Watt
Texture fill rate	24.58	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.7864 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	no data
TMUs	24	no 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).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	DDR3/GDDR5	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	no 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 Connectors

No outputs

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12_1
Shader Model	6.3	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 April 2017	7 January 2018
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	90 Watt

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