GeForce 9800 GX2 vs Radeon HD 6510

GeForce 9800 GX2
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GX2
Radeon HD 6510
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
Radeon HD 6510

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GX2

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

158 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GX2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9800 GX2Radeon HD 6510
GPU NameG92 (G92-450-A2)vsRedwood (Redwood PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs627 million
Shaders128vs400
Compute Units8vs5
Core clock600 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GX2Radeon HD 6510
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GX2Radeon HD 6510
TDP197 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date18 Mar 2008vs14 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    76.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6510
    520.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better