AMD Radeon 530 vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 530 and AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 530

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 775 MHz
  • 3964.5x more texture fill rate: 24.58 GTexel/s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
  • 3.2x better floating-point performance: 800 GFLOPs vs 248.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1016 vs 336
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 175 vs 164
  • 6.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5026 vs 782
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 21 December 2013
Core clock speed 1024 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 160
Floating-point performance 800 GFLOPs vs 248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1016 vs 336
PassMark - G2D Mark 175 vs 164
Geekbench - OpenCL 5026 vs 782

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

  • Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 530
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1016
336
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
175
164
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
5026
782
Name AMD Radeon 530 AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 1016 336
PassMark - G2D Mark 175 164
Geekbench - OpenCL 5026 782
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2246
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2246
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 506

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 530 AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN TeraScale 2
Code name Meso Caicos
Design Radeon 500 Series AMD Radeon R5 200 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 21 December 2013
Place in performance rating 1112 1269
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1024 MHz
Compute units 6
Core clock speed 1024 MHz 775 MHz
Floating-point performance 800 GFLOPs 248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 384 160
Pixel fill rate 8.20 GP/s
Render output units 8
Stream Processors 320/384
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s 6.2 GTexel / s
Texture Units 20/24
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x HDMI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Length 168 mm

API support

DirectX 12 11
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3/GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
AMD Eyefinity