AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M280X and AMD Radeon HD 6990 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M280X

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 830 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990

• 5x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 56 GTexel / s
• 3.4x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 896
• 2.8x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 1,792 gflops
• 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 532 vs 247
• 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3014 vs 814

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M280X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6990

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3713 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3713 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 3356
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	247 532
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	814 3014

Compare specifications (specs)