AMD Radeon HD 6530 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6530 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6530

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6530

2.8x more pipelines: 400 vs 144
Around 4% better floating-point performance: 520.0 gflops vs 501.4 gflops
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 105 Watt

Pipelines	400 vs 144
Floating-point performance	520.0 gflops vs 501.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 105 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM

Around 34% higher core clock speed: 871 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 61% higher texture fill rate: 20.9 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
3.3x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Core clock speed	871 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.9 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6530	NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 OEM
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	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	871 MHz
Floating-point performance	520.0 gflops	501.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	400	144
Texture fill rate	13 GTexel / s	20.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt	105 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	1,170 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	165 mm	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5