NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) and AMD Radeon HD 8530M 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, 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 - 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1354 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 2.1x more boost clock speed: 1493 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 3.6x more texture fill rate: 59.72 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
  • 3.6x better floating-point performance: 1,911 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.9x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 9.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4463 vs 490
  • Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3721 vs 2455
  • 94x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3721 vs 39.6
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2017 vs 10 January 2014
Core clock speed 1354 MHz vs 650 MHz
Boost clock speed 1493 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 59.72 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 384
Floating-point performance 1,911 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4463 vs 490
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721 vs 2455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721 vs 39.6

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8530M

  • Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 438 vs 292
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 438 vs 292

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8530M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4463
490
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
292
438
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3721
2455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3721
39.6
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) AMD Radeon HD 8530M
PassMark - G3D Mark 4463 490
PassMark - G2D Mark 292 438
Geekbench - OpenCL 17466
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 223.683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721 2455
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721 39.6
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2084

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP106B Mars
Launch date 1 February 2017 10 January 2014
Place in performance rating 595 598
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1493 MHz 700 MHz
Core clock speed 1354 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,911 gflops 537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 640 384
Texture fill rate 59.72 GTexel / s 16.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.1 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection