Graphics card overview

Radeon HD 6990

AMD

Radeon HD 6990

2048 Mb GDDR5 Released 8 Mar 2011 DESKTOP

Core configuration

GPU	Antilles
Architecture	ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	1536 : 96 : 32
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	2550.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size	2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width	256 bit x2
Memory Speed	1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	160.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6990 is a graphics card released by AMD on 8 Mar 2011. The graphics card houses the Antilles die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 2,640 million transistors on a 40 nm, 389 mm² die.

Radeon HD 6990 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards

	Radeon HD 6990	GeForce GTX 950 Compare	GeForce GTX 960 Compare	Radeon R9 285 Compare	Radeon R9 280X Compare
Shader units	1536	768	1024	1792	2048
ROPs	32	32	32	32	32
Graphics processor	Antilles	GM206	GM206	Tonga	Tahiti
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1653 MHz 6612 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1753 MHz 7012 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1375 MHz 5500 MHz effective)	3072 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz 6000 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	256 bit x2	128 bit	128 bit	256 bit	384 bit
Memory bandwidth	160.00 Gb/s	105.80 Gb/s	112.20 Gb/s	176.00 Gb/s	288.00 Gb/s
Release date	8 Mar 2011	20 Aug 2015	22 Jan 2015	2 Sep 2014	8 Oct 2013