ATI Radeon VE PCI vs ATI HD 3610

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code nameRV630Rage 6
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date24 September 2009 (15 years ago)19 February 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores120no data
Core clock speed594 MHz183 MHz
Number of transistors390 million30 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate4.7520.55
Floating-point processing power0.1426 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs83

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCI
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed396 MHz183 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.67 GB/s2.928 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)7.0
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.31.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 September 2009 19 February 2001
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 32 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 23 Watt

ATI HD 3610 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 176.9% more advanced lithography process.

ATI VE PCI, on the other hand, has 52.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3610 and Radeon VE PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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