AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 7870M AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 530 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 530 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1024MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M +30%

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon 530 Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

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Radeon 530 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

London

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1024 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

6

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.192 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.58 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

786.4 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

786.4 GFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

49.15 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

Weston

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

Weston PRO (216-0864032)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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