GeForce GT 710 vs Radeon HD 6510

GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710
Radeon HD 6510
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
Radeon HD 6510

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6510

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 710Radeon HD 6510
GPU NameGK208 ()vsRedwood (Redwood PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs627 million
Shaders192vs400
Compute Units1vs5
Core clock954 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon HD 6510
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710Radeon HD 6510
TDP19 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs14 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6510
    520.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better