NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 6510

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon HD 6510

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6510 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6510 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (39W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +158%

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6510

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon HD 6510

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

400

60

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

39W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Redwood

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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