GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile vs Radeon HD 6990

#ad 
Buy on Amazon
VS

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking522not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.63no data
Power efficiency1.43no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameAntillesGB203
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 March 2011 (13 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores153610752
Core clock speed830 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate79.68672.0
Floating-point processing power2.55 TFLOPS43.01 TFLOPS
ROPs32128
TMUs96336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length295 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s1.01 TB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 175 Watt

RTX 5090 Mobile has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6990 and GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6990 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

Vote for your favorite

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite graphics card.


AMD Radeon HD 6990
Radeon HD 6990
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile
GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

Comparisons with similar GPUs

We selected several comparisons of graphics cards with performance close to those reviewed, providing you with more options to consider.

Community ratings

Here you can see the user ratings of the compared graphics cards, as well as rate them yourself.


3.6 25 votes

Rate Radeon HD 6990 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
3.7 3 votes

Rate GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions & comments

Here you can ask a question about this comparison, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.