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AMD Radeon HD 6990M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6990M sales 12 July 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Terascale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 900 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 115.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 100 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.16% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6990M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 553 | |
| Value for money | 1.85 | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Blackcomb XTX | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 12 July 2011 (12 years old) | |
| Current price | $190 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Radeon HD 6990M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6990M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1120 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 715 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,700 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 40.04 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,601.6 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon HD 6990M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6990M: 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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 115.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6990M. 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6990M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6990M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance 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.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon HD 6990M 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.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 54 | |
| Full HD | 60 |
Performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 9−10 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 16−18 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 9−10 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 12−14 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 16−18 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−11 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 7−8 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 16−18 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 9−10 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 12−14 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 16−18 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Metro Exodus | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−11 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−12 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 7−8 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 9−10 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 12−14 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 16−18 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−12 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 7−8 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Hitman 3 | 9−10 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Metro Exodus | 5−6 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 3−4 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 7−8 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 6−7 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 0−1 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 1−2 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 4−5 | |
| Hitman 3 | 5−6 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 5−6 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 3−4 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1−2 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 1−2 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 6−7 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon HD 6990M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6990M is GeForce GTX 765M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 6990M:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon HD 6990M according to our statistics.
