GeForce 9400 GT vs Radeon HD 6510

GeForce 9400 GT
Memory: 128Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Aug 2008
GeForce 9400 GT
Radeon HD 6510
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
Radeon HD 6510

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9400 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6510

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6510

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6510

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9400 GTRadeon HD 6510
GPU NameG86 ()vsRedwood (Redwood PRO)
Fab Process80 nmvs40 nm
Die Size127 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors210 millionvs627 million
Shaders16vs400
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock459 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9400 GTRadeon HD 6510
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size128 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9400 GTRadeon HD 6510
TDP50 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date1 Aug 2008vs14 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    1.84 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    3.67 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    9.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    29.38 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6510
    520.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better