AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon HD 6510

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

AMD Radeon HD 6510

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6510 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6510 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +279%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6510

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon HD 6510

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

5

-

896

Shading Units

400

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

39W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Redwood

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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