Radeon HD 6530D IGP vs Radeon R9 270X

Radeon HD 6530D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jun 2011
Radeon HD 6530D IGP
Radeon R9 270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 270X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6530D IGP

115 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270X .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 270X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6530D IGPRadeon R9 270X
GPU NameBeaverCreek ()vsCuracao (Curacao XT)
Fab Process32 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,450 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders320vs1280
Compute Units4vs20
Core clock443 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6530D IGPRadeon R9 270X
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6530D IGPRadeon R9 270X
TDP65 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date20 Jun 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6530D IGP
    3.54 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6530D IGP
    7.09 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6530D IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270X
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6530D IGP
    283.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270X
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better