NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 530 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 530 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +851%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 530 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF108-200-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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