Radeon HD 6510 vs R3 (Mullins/Beema)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1137not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBeema/MullinsTurks
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 April 2014 (10 years ago)14 May 2011 (13 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 cores128320
Core clock speed350 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed686 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data716 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data39 Watt
Texture fill rateno data10.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.416 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data165 mm
Widthno data1-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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data667 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data21.34 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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 April 2014 14 May 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

R3 (Mullins/Beema) has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) and Radeon HD 6510. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 6510 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema)
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