AMD Radeon R7 M260X vs AMD Radeon 530

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260X 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 530 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

176 points
204 points
15% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS
5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
1 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5979 points
6960 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5787 points
6343 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4631 points
7006 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

715 MHz
1024 MHz
43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

64 GB/s
33% slightly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

5.72 Gigapixels/s
8.2 Gigapixels/s
43% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

17.16 Gigatexels/s
24.58 Gigatexels/s
43% significantly higher texture rate

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
Identical
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

446th of 586
431st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 December
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3
-

Radeon R7 M260X vs Radeon 530 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon 530 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 M260X in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

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

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