ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 560

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v and NVIDIA Quadro FX 560 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

NVIDIA Quadro FX 560

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 43% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 30 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 175 vs 114

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2010 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 30 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	175 vs 114

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 560

Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 4.2 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 360 vs 353

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	360 vs 353

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 560

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

175

114

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

353

360

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v	NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
PassMark - G3D Mark	175	114
PassMark - G2D Mark	353	360

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v	NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M92	G73
Launch date	5 May 2010	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	448	447
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Price now		$150.25
Value for money (0-100)		0.98
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	4.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	177 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2	GDDR3
Shared memory	0