Radeon HD 6350 vs Radeon HD 6990

Radeon HD 6350
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Feb 2011
Radeon HD 6350
Radeon HD 6990
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 6990

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6350

356 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6990 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6990

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6990

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6350Radeon HD 6990
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsAntilles (Antilles XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs389 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs2,640 million
Shaders80vs1536
Compute Units2vs24
Core clock650 MHzvs830 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs96

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6350Radeon HD 6990
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6350Radeon HD 6990
TDP19 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date7 Feb 2011vs8 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6350
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6990
    26.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6350
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6990
    79.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6350
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6990
    160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6350
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6990
    2550.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better