ATI Radeon HD 3610 vs HD 6530

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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 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRedwoodRV630
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 May 2011 (13 years ago)24 September 2009 (15 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 cores400120
Core clock speed650 MHz594 MHz
Number of transistors627 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)39 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate13.004.752
Floating-point processing power0.52 TFLOPS0.1426 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs208

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 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length165 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed600 MHz396 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/s12.67 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2011 24 September 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 39 Watt 35 Watt

HD 6530 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

ATI HD 3610, on the other hand, has 11.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6530 and Radeon HD 3610. We've got no test results to judge.


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