Radeon 530X Mobile vs ATI X1550

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1409not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.43no data
ArchitectureUltra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameRV516Polaris 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2007 (17 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 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 coresno data384
Core clock speed550 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors105 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate2.20024.58
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs424

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 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MBps1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s36 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 VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_0)
Shader Model3.06.3
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 50 Watt

ATI X1550 has 85.2% lower power consumption.

530X Mobile, on the other hand, has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1550 and Radeon 530X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1550 is a desktop card while Radeon 530X Mobile is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon X1550
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