Radeon HD 6990 vs Radeon HD 7970 X2
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6990 |
| 125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 X2 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 X2 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 X2
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6990 | | Radeon HD 7970 X2 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Antilles (Antilles XT) | vs | New Zealand () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | vs | 365 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 24 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 830 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 96 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6990 | | Radeon HD 7970 X2 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit x2 | vs | 384 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6990 | | Radeon HD 7970 X2 | |
|---|
| TDP | 375 watts | vs | 500 watts |
| Release Date | 8 Mar 2011 | vs | 31 Aug 2012 |
Radeon HD 6990
26.60 GP/s
Radeon HD 7970 X2
59.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6990
79.70 GT/s
Radeon HD 7970 X2
236.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6990
160.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7970 X2
528.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6990
2550.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7970 X2
7578.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better