ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs HD 6510G2

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1019not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameno dataM82
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date14 June 2011 (13 years ago)7 January 2008 (16 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 cores40040
Core clock speedno data680 MHz
Number of transistorsno data181 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data12 Watt
Texture fill rateno data2.720
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0544 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataMXM-II

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 typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1110.1
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2011 7 January 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

HD 6510G2 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon HD 6510G2
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