GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon HD 6510

GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon HD 6510
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
Radeon HD 6510

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

143 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 260Radeon HD 6510
GPU NameGT200 (G200-100-A2)vsTurks (Turks PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs716 million
Shaders192vs480
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock576 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs28vs8
TMUs64vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 260Radeon HD 6510
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width448 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 260Radeon HD 6510
TDP182 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs14 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6510
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6510
    624.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better