Radeon HD 6510 vs Radeon RX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6510 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 6510 Advantages
Lower TDP (39W vs 185W)
Radeon RX 580 Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1340MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1904 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6510
520
Radeon RX 580
+1087%
6175
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Apr 2017
Northern Islands
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1257 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1340 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
36
400
Shading Units
2304
20
TMUs
144
8
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
5.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.88 GPixel/s
13.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
193.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.175 TFLOPS
520.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.175 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
385.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
39W
TDP
185W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Redwood
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Redwood PRO
(215-0757004)
(215-0757004)
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
(215-0910038)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.627 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
104 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
