Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 6990
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 960
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 22 Jan 2015
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VS
AMD
Radeon HD 6990
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 8 Mar 2011
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 960100%
- Radeon HD 6990103%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- GeForce GTX 960104%
- Radeon HD 6990100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 960
- 255 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6990 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6990
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 960 | Radeon HD 6990 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM206 (GM206-300-A1) | Antilles (Antilles XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | 389 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,940 million | 2,640 million |
| Shaders | 1024 | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 8 | 24 |
| Core clock | 1127 MHz | 830 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| TMUs | 64 | 96 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 960 | Radeon HD 6990 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 256 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 960 | Radeon HD 6990 |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | 375 watts |
| Release Date | 22 Jan 2015 | 8 Mar 2011 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 96036.10 GP/s
- Radeon HD 699026.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 96072.10 GT/s
- Radeon HD 699079.70 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 960112.20 GB/s
- Radeon HD 6990160.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 9602308.10 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 69902550.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 96010380
- Radeon HD 699010720
Points (higher is better)
Game benchmarks
Bioshock Infinite
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
- GeForce GTX 96047
- Radeon HD 699045
FPS (higher is better)