ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v vs ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v and ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View 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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 70% lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 17 Watt
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 175 vs 170

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2010 vs 1 April 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 17 Watt
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	175 vs 170
PassMark - G2D Mark	353 vs 352

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm

Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v
GPU 2: ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

175

170

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

353

352

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v	ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View
PassMark - G3D Mark	175	170
PassMark - G2D Mark	353	352

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v	ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale 2
Code name	M92	Cedar
Launch date	5 May 2010	1 April 2010
Place in performance rating	458	461
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	80
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	17 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2	DDR3
Shared memory	0