HD Graphics 530 Mobile (Skylake GT2) vs GeForce GTX 480
Summary
Reasons to consider HD Graphics 530 Mobile (Skylake GT2) |
| 235 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| HD Graphics 530 Mobile (Skylake GT2) | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
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| GPU Name | Skylake GT2 () | vs | GF100 (GF100-375-A3) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 49 mm² | vs | 529 mm² |
| Transistors | 189 million | vs | 3,100 million |
| Shaders | 192 | vs | 480 |
| Compute Units | 0 | vs | 15 |
| Core clock | 350 MHz | vs | 701 MHz |
| ROPs | 3 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 60 |
Memory Configuration
| HD Graphics 530 Mobile (Skylake GT2) | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | vs | 924 MHz
3696 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | vs | 1536 Mb |
Additional details
| HD Graphics 530 Mobile (Skylake GT2) | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
|---|
| TDP | 15 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Sep 2015 | vs | 26 Mar 2010 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better