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Radeon HD 6990 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

The Radeon HD 6990 has core clock speeds of 830 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M395X, which features clock speeds of 723 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M395X 125 Watts
Radeon HD 6990 375 Watts
Difference: 250 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6990 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R9 M395X in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6990 320000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 160000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6990 should be much (approximately 72%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M395X. (explain)

Radeon HD 6990 159360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 92544 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 66816 (72%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6990 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6990 53120 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 29984 (130%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Radeon HD 6990

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Radeon R9 M395X

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 6990 Radeon R9 M395X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year March 2011 2015
Code Name Antilles Tonga
Memory 2048 MB (x2) 4096 MB
Core Speed 830 MHz (x2) 723 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz (x2) 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 375 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 320000 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 159360 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 53120 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 (x2) 2048
Texture Mapping Units 96 (x2) 128
Render Output Units 32 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2640 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6990

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Radeon R9 M395X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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