Radeon HD 7530M vs HD 7310

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1301not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.28no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameLovelandThames
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date6 June 2012 (12 years ago)7 January 2012 (12 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 cores80400
Core clock speed500 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors450 million716 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt11 Watt
Texture fill rate4.00010.80
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.36 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceIGPPCIe 2.0 x16
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 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 outputsNo outputs

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 6 June 2012 7 January 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 11 Watt

HD 7310 has an age advantage of 4 months.

HD 7530M, on the other hand, has 63.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7310 and Radeon HD 7530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7310 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 7530M is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7310
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