AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6990 and NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i 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) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 630 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 91.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3014 vs 33
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 532 vs 254
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 March 2011 vs 16 November 2007
Core clock speed 830 MHz vs 630 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3014 vs 33
PassMark - G2D Mark 532 vs 254

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6990
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3014
33
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
532
254
Name AMD Radeon HD 6990 NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i
PassMark - G3D Mark 3014 33
PassMark - G2D Mark 532 254
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 NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 Curie
Code name Antilles C73
Launch date 8 March 2011 16 November 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Place in performance rating 672 674
Price now $159.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 27.81

Technical info

Core clock speed 830 MHz 630 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 2,549.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2x 1536
Texture fill rate 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 375 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million 112 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

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