Radeon 530 and Radeon HD 6970 X2 - video card comparison
Radeon 530
Radeon HD 6970 X2
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
Meso
Antilles
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
3x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1024 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
880 MHz
Floating-point performance
784.1 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
375 Watt
Texture fill rate
24.50
84.48
Memory type
DDR3/GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
176.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12.0
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A