AMD Radeon HD 6530M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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AMD Radeon HD 6530M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6530M 's Advantages

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6530M

0.36 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M +164%

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530M

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GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Jun 2011

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

5

Compute Units

-

400

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

9.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

360.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Capilano

GPU Name

GF114

Capilano LE

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

26W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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