Radeon RX 6400 vs ATI HD 5530

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated278
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data53.13
Power efficiencyno data26.74
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCedarNavi 24
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 March 2011 (13 years ago)19 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$159

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores80768
Core clock speed650 MHz1923 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2321 MHz
Number of transistors292 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt53 Watt
Texture fill rate5.200111.4
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS3.565 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs848
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed600 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/s128.0 GB/s

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 VGA1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2011 19 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 53 Watt

ATI HD 5530 has 178.9% lower power consumption.

RX 6400, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5530 and Radeon RX 6400. We've got no test results to judge.


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