AMD Radeon 530 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 530 and NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra 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 16 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 4.1x more core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 250 MHz
  • 12290x more texture fill rate: 24.58 GTexel/s vs 2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 180 nm
  • 64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
  • 9.8x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 460 MHz
  • 170.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1021 vs 6
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 175 vs 147
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 14 August 2000
Core clock speed 1024 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz vs 460 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1021 vs 6
PassMark - G2D Mark 175 vs 147

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 530
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1021
6
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
175
147
Name AMD Radeon 530 NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 1021 6
PassMark - G2D Mark 175 147
Geekbench - OpenCL 5008
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 NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture GCN Celsius
Code name Meso NV15 A4
Design Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 14 August 2000
Place in performance rating 1120 1119
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $499

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1024 MHz
Compute units 6
Core clock speed 1024 MHz 250 MHz
Floating-point performance 800 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 180 nm
Pipelines 384
Pixel fill rate 8.20 GP/s
Render output units 8
Stream Processors 320/384
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s 2 GTexel / s
Texture Units 20/24
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 25 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors None None
Length 183 mm

API support

DirectX 12 7.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 1.2
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s 7.36 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 460 MHz
Memory type DDR3/GDDR5 DDR
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)