AMD Radeon HD 6990
VS
AMD Hawaii
AMD Radeon HD 6990
VS
AMD Hawaii

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6990 and AMD Hawaii. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

375
Place in performance rating
not rated
20.96
Value for money (0-100)
no data
TeraScale 3
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Antilles
Code name
Hawaii
Desktop
Type
Desktop
8 March 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
no data
$699
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$259 (0.4x MSRP)
Price now
$64
3.09
Value for money
no data
Antilles
GPU code name
Hawaii
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 6990 and AMD Hawaii based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
2816
830 MHz
Core clock speed
no data
2,640 million
Transistor count
6,200 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
375 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
79.68
Texture fill rate
no data
2x 2,549.8 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2,640 million
Number of transistors
6,200 million
375 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 6990 and AMD Hawaii.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
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295 mm
Length
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2x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 6990 and AMD Hawaii can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
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2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
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256 Bit
Memory bus width
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5000 MHz
Memory clock speed
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160.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6990 and AMD Hawaii, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 6990 and AMD Hawaii. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 6990 and AMD Hawaii graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 6990 or AMD Hawaii good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6990
AMD Hawaii
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6990
AMD Hawaii
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6990
AMD Hawaii
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6990
AMD Hawaii
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6990
AMD Hawaii
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6990

13.45% faster in synthetic tests

Advantages of AMD Hawaii

Cheaper ($64 vs $259 (0.4x MSRP))

More pipelines (2816 vs 1536)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Radeon HD 6990 or AMD Hawaii?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6990 .

AMD Radeon HD 6990 versus AMD Hawaii performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 6990
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Hawaii