Radeon HD 6990 Overview

Radeon HD 6990
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Mar 2011

Core Configuration

GPU	Antilles
Architecture	ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	1536 : 96 : 32
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	2550.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size	2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width	256 bit x2
Memory Speed	1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	160.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

GeForce GTX TITAN Z
271%
GeForce GTX TITAN X
253%
Radeon R9 295X2
248%
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
244%
Radeon R9 FURY X
237%
Radeon R9 FURY
220%
Radeon R9 Nano
211%
GeForce GTX 980
191%
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
177%
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
173%
GeForce GTX TITAN
164%
GeForce GTX 970
162%
GeForce GTX 780
162%
Radeon R9 290X
137%
Radeon R9 290
128%
Radeon R9 380X
124%
GeForce GTX 770
115%
Radeon R9 285
111%
Radeon R9 280X
106%
GeForce GTX 960
104%
GeForce GTX 680
102%
Radeon HD 6990
100%
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
100%
GeForce GTX 670
95%
GeForce GTX 760
91%
GeForce GTX 950
91%
Radeon HD 7970
86%
Radeon HD 7950
80%
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
80%
Radeon R9 270X
75%
Radeon R9 270
71%
GeForce GTX 660
68%
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
66%
GeForce GTX 580
64%
Radeon R7 265
64%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
60%
GeForce GTX 480
53%
Radeon HD 6970
53%
Radeon HD 7850
51%
GeForce GTX 750
48%
Radeon R7 260X
48%
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
42%
Radeon HD 7790
42%
Radeon HD 6870
40%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6990 is a graphics card released by AMD on 8 Mar 2011. The graphics card houses the Antilles die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 2,640 million transistors on a 40 nm, 389 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 6990 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards


	Radeon HD 6990	GeForce GTX 950	GeForce GTX 960	Radeon R9 285	Radeon R9 280X
		compare	compare	compare	compare
Shader units	1536	768	1024	1792	2048
ROPs	32	32	32	32	32
Graphics processor	Antilles	GM206	GM206	Tonga	Tahiti
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1653 MHz 6612 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1753 MHz 7012 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1375 MHz 5500 MHz effective)	3072 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz 6000 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	256 bit x2	128 bit	128 bit	256 bit	384 bit
Memory bandwidth	160.00 Gb/s	105.80 Gb/s	112.20 Gb/s	176.00 Gb/s	288.00 Gb/s
Release date	8 Mar 2011	20 Aug 2015	22 Jan 2015	2 Sep 2014	8 Oct 2013