Radeon HD 5530 vs Radeon R7 250X
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5530 |
| 61 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 250X . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250X |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250X
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5530 | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cedar (Cedar XTX) | vs | Cape Verde (Cape Verde XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 59 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 950 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5530 | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 600 MHz
1200 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5530 | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 80 watts |
| Release Date | 17 Mar 2011 | vs | 13 Feb 2014 |
Radeon HD 5530
2.60 GP/s
Radeon R7 250X
15.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5530
5.20 GT/s
Radeon R7 250X
38.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5530
9.60 GB/s
Radeon R7 250X
72.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5530
104.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 250X
1216.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better