Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6990M vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jul 2011 Mar 2020
Generation Vancouver Polaris
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 900 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1257 MHz
Boost Clock 1420 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 115.2GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14 36
Shading Units 1120 2304
TMUs 56 144
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 22.88 GPixel/s 45.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 40.04 GTexel/s 204.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.602 TFLOPS 6.543 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 6.543 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 409.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Blackcomb Polaris 20
GPU Variant Blackcomb XTX(216-0811030) Polaris 20 XTR(215-0910066)
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 175W
Outputs No outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan N/A 1.3
Shader Model 5.0 6.7