AMD Radeon 530X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

VS

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 530X Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1024MHz vs 1000MHz)

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 530X Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X +127%

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon 530X Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M280X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

14

-

384

Shading Units

896

24

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 24

GPU Name

Saturn

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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