AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990

ATI Radeon HD 3690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 26.56GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990 +494%

2.55 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3690

0.429 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

VS

Radeon HD 3690

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Mar 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

26.56GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

4

-

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.8 GFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

75W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

RV670

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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