Radeon HD 6990 vs RTX 2000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2130MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6990
2550
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+370%
12000
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Feb 2024
Northern Islands
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1620 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2130 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
22
1536
Shading Units
2816
96
TMUs
88
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
88
-
RT Cores
22
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
Theoretical Performance
26.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.2 GPixel/s
79.68 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
187.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.00 TFLOPS
2.550 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.00 TFLOPS
637.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
187.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
70W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Antilles
GPU Name
AD107
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
159 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
5.0
Shader Model
6.7