Radeon HD 6530D IGP vs ATI HD 5850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking619not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.64no data
Power efficiency2.38no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameCypressSumo
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 September 2009 (15 years ago)20 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

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 cores1440320
Core clock speed725 MHz443 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate52.207.088
Floating-point processing power2.088 TFLOPS0.2835 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs7216

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 x16IGP
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/sno data

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2009 20 June 2011
Chip lithography 40 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 65 Watt

HD 6530D IGP has an age advantage of 1 year, a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 132.3% lower power consumption.

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