Quadro FX 470 vs Radeon HD 6515G2

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 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameno dataC79
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date14 June 2011 (13 years ago)12 September 2007 (17 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 cores40016
Core clock speedno data580 MHz
Number of transistorsno data314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data38 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.640
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 dataPCI
Widthno dataIGP

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory-no data

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 data2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX1111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2011 12 September 2007
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm

HD 6515G2 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6515G2 and Quadro FX 470. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6515G2 is a notebook card while Quadro FX 470 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6515G2
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