Radeon HD 6990M vs Radeon R5 M320

Radeon HD 6990M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 12 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6990M
Radeon R5 M320
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 M320

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6990M

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 M320

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6990M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6990M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6990MRadeon R5 M320
GPU NameBlackcomb (Blackcomb XTX)vsJet (Jet PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1120vs320
Compute Units14vs5
Core clock715 MHzvs780 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs56vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6990MRadeon R5 M320
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6990MRadeon R5 M320
TDP100 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2011vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    22.88 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M320
    6.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    40.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M320
    17.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    115.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M320
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    1601.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M320
    547.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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