Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2011 Jan 2013
Generation Northern Islands Sea Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 160.0GB/s 179.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 24 20
Shading Units 1536 1280
TMUs 96 80
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 26.56 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 79.68 GTexel/s 74.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.550 TFLOPS 2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 637.4 GFLOPS 148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Antilles Curacao
GPU Variant Antilles XT(215-0807027) Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Architecture TeraScale 3 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.64 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 389 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 375W 175W
Suggested PSU 750 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.2
Shader Model 5.0 5.1