AMD Radeon HD 6990M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6990M AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

96 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990M

1.602 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +24%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Nov 2014

Vancouver

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

16

1120

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

40.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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