AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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), 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 RX Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
5.3x more pipelines: 512 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 14 May 2011
Pipelines	512 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
PassMark - G3D Mark		671
PassMark - G2D Mark		236
Geekbench - OpenCL		2304
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		5.698
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		175.385
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.497
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		9.27
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1064
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1589
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2716
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1064
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1589
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2716

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Fermi
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GF108
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	14 May 2011
Place in performance rating	1357	1360
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	96
Core clock speed		700 MHz
Floating-point performance		268.8 gflops
Texture fill rate		11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		50 Watt
Transistor count		585 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		145 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3