AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6990 and ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP 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 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 66% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 35x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Launch date 8 March 2011 vs 1 March 2004
Core clock speed 830 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP

  • 6.9x lower typical power consumption: 54 Watt vs 375 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 54 Watt vs 375 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6990
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP

Name AMD Radeon HD 6990 ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 3014
PassMark - G2D Mark 532
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 Radeon X800 XT AGP

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 R400
Code name Antilles R420
Launch date 8 March 2011 1 March 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Place in performance rating 644 not rated
Price now $159.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 27.81

Technical info

Core clock speed 830 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 2,549.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 2x 1536
Texture fill rate 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 375 Watt 54 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million 160 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 295 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0b
OpenGL 4.4 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 2x 160.0 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3