AMD Radeon HD 6990M vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 M260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock715MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990M +191%

1.602 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260X

0.549 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

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Radeon R7 M260X

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Dec 2015

Vancouver

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

620 MHz

-

Boost Clock

715 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

6

1120

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.720 GPixel/s

40.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

549.1 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Opal

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GPU Variant

Opal PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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