AMD Radeon HD 6530 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6530 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6530

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6530

2.8x more pipelines: 400 vs 144
Around 25% better floating-point performance: 520.0 gflops vs 414.7 gflops
Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 70 Watt

Pipelines	400 vs 144
Floating-point performance	520.0 gflops vs 414.7 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 70 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 17.28 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Core clock speed	720 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.28 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6530
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6530	NVIDIA GeForce GT 545
PassMark - G3D Mark		1099
PassMark - G2D Mark		324
Geekbench - OpenCL		3693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		10.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		306.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.883
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		18.564
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		35.369
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1893
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1893
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6530	NVIDIA GeForce GT 545
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Redwood	GF116
Launch date	14 May 2011	14 May 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	1079
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$149
Price now		$55.59
Value for money (0-100)		26.90
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	720 MHz
Floating-point performance	520.0 gflops	414.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	400	144
Texture fill rate	13 GTexel / s	17.28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt	70 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	1,170 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	165 mm	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3