AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6510 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6510 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6510

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 +451%

2.867 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6510

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jan 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

28

400

Shading Units

1792

20

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

13.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

520.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Tahiti

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

39W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

2

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs NVIDIA A2

3

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

4

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs ATI Radeon HD 5670

5

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

6

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs ATI Radeon X1550

7

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

8

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM

9

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs AMD Radeon HD 6250

10

AMD Radeon HD 6510 vs ATI FirePro V7900

Related News

1

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

2

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

3

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

4

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

5

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

6

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

7

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

8

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

9

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

10

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied