NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6990M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6990M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6990M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

355
Place in performance rating
391
Fermi
Architecture
Terascale 2
N11E-GTX-A3
Code name
Blackcomb
Laptop
Type
Laptop
25 May 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
12 July 2011 (10 years ago)
$149
Price now
$190
5.56
Value for money
3.27
N11E-GTX-A3
GPU code name
Blackcomb XTX
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6990M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

704
Pipelines
1120
425 MHz
Core clock speed
715 MHz
6000 Million
Transistor count
1,700 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
100 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
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Texture fill rate
40.04
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Floating-point performance
1,601.6 gflops
704
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
6000 Million
Number of transistors
1,700 million
100 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
100 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6990M.

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Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
large

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6990M can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1200 MHz
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6990M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6990M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
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OpenGL
4.4

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6990M 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI or AMD Radeon HD 6990M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
AMD Radeon HD 6990M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
AMD Radeon HD 6990M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
AMD Radeon HD 6990M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
AMD Radeon HD 6990M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
AMD Radeon HD 6990M
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI

Cheaper ($149 vs $190)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6990M

More pipelines (1120 vs 704)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI or AMD Radeon HD 6990M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI versus AMD Radeon HD 6990M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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