AMD Radeon HD 8530M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8530M and AMD Radeon R9 M290X 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8530M

• Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 438 vs 426

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M290X

• Around 31% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 650 MHz
• Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 900 MHz vs 700 MHz
• 4.3x more texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
• 3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
• 4.3x better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• 6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3282 vs 490
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2581 vs 2455
• 65.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2581 vs 39.6

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8530M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M290X

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	490 3282
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	438 426
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2455 2581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	39.6 2581

Compare specifications (specs)