Intel HD 530 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

Compare Intel HD 530 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 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

13% slightly better overall score

464 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

8 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

12 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

55 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4602 points

12373 points

168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points

13079 points

168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4413 points

11245 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4937 points

12485 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

350 MHz

1100 MHz

214% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

950 MHz

1287 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

233% significantly lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.85 Gigapixels/s

20.6 Gigapixels/s

622% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.8 Gigatexels/s

51.48 Gigatexels/s

125% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

512

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

329th of 597

345th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

HD 530 vs Radeon RX 550X specs and performance

For gaming, the HD 530 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550X in our tests.

The Radeon RX 550X has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 550X also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the HD 530 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550X at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the HD 530 is faster than the Radeon RX 550X.