ATI Radeon 9800 XXL vs HD 6510

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameTurksR360
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 May 2011 (13 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320no data
Core clock speed650 MHz390 MHz
Number of transistors716 million117 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)39 Wattno data
Texture fill rate10.403.120
Floating-point processing power0.416 TFLOPSno data
ROPs88
TMUs168

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 8x
Length165 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneFloppy

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz338 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.34 GB/s21.63 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2011 1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

HD 6510 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

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