AMD Radeon HD 6530 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6530

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6530

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +983%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jun 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

44

-

400

Shading Units

2816

20

TMUs

176

8

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

13.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

520.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Hawaii

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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