Radeon HD 5530 vs GeForce GT 610

Radeon HD 5530
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 5530
GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5530

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 610

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 610

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5530GeForce GT 610
GPU NameCedar (Cedar XTX)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs292 million
Shaders80vs48
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock650 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5530GeForce GT 610
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5530GeForce GT 610
TDP19 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date17 Mar 2011vs2 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5530
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5530
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5530
    9.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5530
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better