Trying to find max resolution for AMD card

Question

I am attempting to buy a large monitor for my younger brother for Christmas. I want to be sure his computer is able to support resolution beyond 1920x1080. He has an AMD A6-3650 APU with Radeon HD 6530D. I have been searching for the maximum resolution for this card for an hour now and found nothing. AMD's page for this card is extremely lacking in detail compared to other AMD card pages. Other sites give almost all other details, but neglect the maximum resolution. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You’re right, not only do they not specify details in that page, they don’t even give specifications in the video-card pages either (I guess for some reason, AMD just doesn’t think users need to know that stuff ¬_¬). Curiously, resolution information is not specified in comparison charts for the AMD cards, nor even for the series-specific charts.

Nontheless, fortunately, specifications are not difficult to find. Google 6530D resolution to get this page (figure 1). Even better, the answer is right there in the search results (figure 2).

That card supports different resolutions depending on what mode the output is and what cable is being used (figure 3):

• The maximum digital resolution (using a DVI or HDMI cable) is 2560×1600¹
• The maximum analog resolution (when using a VGA cable)  is 2048×1536

¹Note, that to actually achieve a resolution of 2560×1600 with a DVI cable, you must use a Dual-Link cable, either integrated (-I) or digital only (-D) will work, as long as it doesn’t have that gap in the middle of the pins.

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Figure 1: Game Debate analysis of HD 6530D

Figure 2: Google results with max res in page summary

Figure 3: Common video cables (VGA, DVI(-D), HDMI)

Figure 4: Different types of DVI cables: