Radeon HD 6510 vs Radeon HD 3850
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6510 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 6510 Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
80 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (39W vs 75W)
Radeon HD 3850 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (53.12GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6510
+21%
520
Radeon HD 3850
428
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Nov 2007
Northern Islands
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
830 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
53.12GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
4
400
Shading Units
320
20
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
5.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.69 GPixel/s
13.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.69 GTexel/s
520.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
427.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
85.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
39W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Redwood
GPU Name
RV670
Redwood PRO
(215-0757004)
(215-0757004)
GPU Variant
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
(215-0708003)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.627 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
104 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
