Radeon HD 6990: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon HD 6990 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 7.81% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6990 sales 8 March 2011 at a recommended price of $699 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 3 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 295 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 375 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6990: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking521
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.63
Power efficiency1.45of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameAntilles
Market segmentDesktop
Release date8 March 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 6990's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6990's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed830 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors2,640 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)375 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate79.68of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power2.55 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs96of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6990 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length295 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6990: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6990. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 6990, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6990. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

HD 6990 7.81

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

HD 6990 3013

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

HD 6990 5830

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 6990 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 6990's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6990 is GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

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