Radeon RX 5300 OEM vs HD 6990

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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)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameAntillesNavi 14
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 March 2011 (13 years ago)28 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1536768
Core clock speed830 MHz1375 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1645 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt135 Watt
Texture fill rate79.6878.96
Floating-point processing power2.55 TFLOPS2.527 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs9648

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 4.0 x8
Length295 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s84 GB/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, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 March 2011 28 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 135 Watt

RX 5300 OEM has an age advantage of 9 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 177.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6990 and Radeon RX 5300 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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