Graphics card comparison
Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon HD 6990
AMD
Radeon Vega 8
0 Mb System Shared
Released 13 Feb 2018
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon HD 6990
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 8 Mar 2011
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon Vega 8
- 310 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 Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports FreeSync
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports TrueAudio
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon Vega 8 | Radeon HD 6990 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Raven Ridge () | Antilles (Antilles XT) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 210 mm² | 389 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,940 million | 2,640 million |
| Shaders | 512 | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 8 | 24 |
| Core clock | 300 MHz | 830 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | 96 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon Vega 8 | Radeon HD 6990 |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | 256 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon Vega 8 | Radeon HD 6990 |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | 375 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Feb 2018 | 8 Mar 2011 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon Vega 817.60 GP/s
- Radeon HD 699026.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon Vega 835.20 GT/s
- Radeon HD 699079.70 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon Vega 80.00 GB/s
- Radeon HD 6990160.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon Vega 81126.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 69902550.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better