GeForce GT 530 OEM vs Radeon R5 230

GeForce GT 530 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
GeForce GT 530 OEM
Radeon R5 230
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2014
Radeon R5 230

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 530 OEM

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 230

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 530 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 530 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 530 OEMRadeon R5 230
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-200-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs370 million
Shaders96vs160
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock700 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 530 OEMRadeon R5 230
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 530 OEMRadeon R5 230
TDP50 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date14 May 2011vs3 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    11.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    10.67 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better