Radeon RX Vega 11 vs Radeon HD 6990

Radeon RX Vega 11
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon RX Vega 11
Radeon HD 6990
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 6990

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 11

310 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6990 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6990

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 11Radeon HD 6990
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsAntilles (Antilles XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs389 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs2,640 million
Shaders704vs1536
Compute Units11vs24
Core clock300 MHzvs830 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs44vs96

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 11Radeon HD 6990
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit x2
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX Vega 11Radeon HD 6990
TDP65 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs8 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    20.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6990
    26.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    55.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6990
    79.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6990
    160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    1760.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6990
    2550.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better