AMD Radeon Vega 9 vs AMD Radeon 530X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 9 and AMD Radeon 530X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Vega 9

AMD Radeon 530X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 9

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 1021 MHz
Around 50% higher pipelines: 576 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz vs 1021 MHz
Pipelines	576 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 530X

2.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 28019 vs 9590

Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	28019 vs 9590

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 9
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 530X

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9590

28019

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 9	AMD Radeon 530X
PassMark - G2D Mark	402
PassMark - G3D Mark	1588
Geekbench - OpenCL	9590	28019
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2591
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2591
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1856
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1856
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2482
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2482

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 9	AMD Radeon 530X
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Meso
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	820	822
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz	1021 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	576	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	4500 million	1,040 million
Core clock speed		730 MHz
Floating-point performance		784.1 gflops
Texture fill rate		24.5 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	12.1
Memory
Shared memory	Yes
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		32 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		4000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors		None