AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5250

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6990 and ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 84% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 51.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
  • 256x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 12
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 7.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 111.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3014 vs 27
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 532 vs 252
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 March 2011 vs 1 January 2007
Core clock speed 830 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 1536 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3014 vs 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 532 vs 252

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6990
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V5250

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3014
27
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
532
252
Name AMD Radeon HD 6990 ATI Mobility FireGL V5250
PassMark - G3D Mark 3014 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 532 252
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 17.264
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 840.452
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.76
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 53.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 265.302
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6990 ATI Mobility FireGL V5250

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 R500
Code name Antilles M66
Launch date 8 March 2011 1 January 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Place in performance rating 672 675
Price now $159.99
Type Desktop Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100) 27.81

Technical info

Core clock speed 830 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 2,549.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2x 1536 12
Texture fill rate 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 375 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million 157 million
Boost clock speed 400 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 295 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 2x 160.0 GB / s 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 256 Bit 330 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 700 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 128
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Powerplay 6.0