Intel HD 530 vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

Compare Intel HD 530 vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

528 points

200% significantly better overall score

176 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

43 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

55 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4602 points

5979 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4413 points

5787 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4937 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4631 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

350 MHz

620 MHz

77% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

950 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

715 MHz

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.85 Gigapixels/s

5.72 Gigapixels/s

100% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.8 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

17.16 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

384

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

321st of 586

448th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.3

HD 530 vs Radeon R7 M260X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 M260X beats the HD 530 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 M260X has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the HD 530 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 M260X over the HD 530.