Radeon HD 6530D IGP vs GeForce GTX 650

Radeon HD 6530D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jun 2011
Radeon HD 6530D IGP
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6530D IGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6530D IGPGeForce GTX 650
GPU NameBeaverCreek ()vsGK106 ()
Fab Process32 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,450 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders320vs384
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock443 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs16vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6530D IGPGeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6530D IGPGeForce GTX 650
TDP65 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date20 Jun 2011vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6530D IGP
    3.54 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6530D IGP
    7.09 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6530D IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6530D IGP
    283.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better