AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6990 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 680 MHz
  • 102.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2.72 GTexel / s
  • 76.8x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 40
  • 93.7x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 54.4 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 6.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 32.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3014 vs 93
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 532 vs 250
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 March 2011 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed 830 MHz vs 680 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 1536 vs 40
Floating-point performance 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3014 vs 93
PassMark - G2D Mark 532 vs 250

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

  • 31.3x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 375 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 375 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6990
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3014
93
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
532
250
Name AMD Radeon HD 6990 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
PassMark - G3D Mark 3014 93
PassMark - G2D Mark 532 250
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 Radeon HD 3470

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 TeraScale
Code name Antilles M82
Launch date 8 March 2011 7 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Place in performance rating 672 673
Price now $159.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 27.81

Technical info

Core clock speed 830 MHz 680 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 2,549.8 gflops 54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2x 1536 40
Texture fill rate 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec 2.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 375 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million 181 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 2x 160.0 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory 0