ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon HD 6510

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6510 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6510 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (39W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +423%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6510

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon HD 6510

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

May 2011

Evergreen

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

5

1600

Shading Units

400

80

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Redwood

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

39W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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