Radeon HD 6990 vs Radeon R5 330 OEM

Radeon HD 6990
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 6990
Radeon R5 330 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 330 OEM

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 330 OEM

325 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 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6990

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6990Radeon R5 330 OEM
GPU NameAntilles (Antilles XT)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1536vs320
Compute Units24vs5
Core clock830 MHzvs830 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs96vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6990Radeon R5 330 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6990Radeon R5 330 OEM
TDP375 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date8 Mar 2011vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6990
    26.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 330 OEM
    6.64 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6990
    79.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 330 OEM
    16.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6990
    160.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 330 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6990
    2550.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 330 OEM
    531.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better