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AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

The AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire (or sometimes called the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6990 X2) is a combination of two high-end graphics card for big and heavy laptops. Usually, each single card renders a single frame. Therefore, it may suffer from micro stuttering in low fps ranges of 30fps. This happens because of different timespans between two frames (e.g., irregular delays between sequential frames).

The HD 6990M is based on the desktop HD 6870 graphics card. The codename of the mobile core is Blackcomb XTX and it should have high power consumption (>=100W) with UVD3 video processor and Eyefinity+ support. More information on the features of the single 6990M can be found on this page.

The Performance of the two HD 6990M in our first tests was about 5% behind that of the GeForce GTX 580M SLI. Therefore, the 6990M is one of the fastest mobile graphics solutions in 2011 and nearly all available games are playable with highest settings and antialiasing enabled (see below).

ManufacturerAMD
Radeon HD 6900M Series

Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire 2240@715MHz

Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire 1920@680MHz

Radeon HD 6990M 1120@715MHz

Radeon HD 6970M 960@680MHz

Radeon HD 6950M 960@580MHz

CodenameBlackcomb XTX
ArchitectureTerascale 2
Pipelines2240 - unified
Core Speed *715 MHz
Shader Speed *715 MHz
Memory Speed *900 MHz
Memory Bus Width256 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory2x2048 MB
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Transistors2x1700 Million
technology40 nm
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement12.07.2011
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

Benchmarks

3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720
0% 100%
min: 6584     avg: 6593 (64%)     max: 6602 points
3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720
0% 100%
min: 6422     avg: 6422 (58%)     max: 6422 points
...
GeForce GTX 570 -22%
GeForce GTX 580 -6%
Radeon HD 7870 -4%
Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
Radeon HD 7970 21%
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 31%
GeForce GTX 590 43%
...
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100%
3DMark Vantage - P Result no PhysX 1280x1024
0% 100%
min: 25449     avg: 25758.5 (70%)     max: 26068 Points
3DMark Vantage - P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024
0% 100%
min: 24558     avg: 24558 (67%)     max: 24558 Points
3DMark 06
0% 100%
min: 23292     avg: 23292 (79%)     max: 23292 Points
3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 28941     avg: 28941 (78%)     max: 28941 Points
3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 102766     avg: 102766 (68%)     max: 102766 Points
Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024
0% 100%
min: 73.5     avg: 73.5 (49%)     max: 73.5 fps
PCMark Vantage - Gaming Score 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 19230     avg: 19230 (74%)     max: 19230 Points
SPECviewperf 11 - Catia 1920x1080
0% 100%
min: 4.81     avg: 4.8 (7%)     max: 4.81 fps
SPECviewperf 11 - Ensight 1920x1080
0% 100%
min: 22.19     avg: 22.2 (37%)     max: 22.19 fps
SPECviewperf 11 - Lightwave 1920x1080
0% 100%
min: 11.54     avg: 11.5 (14%)     max: 11.54 fps
SPECviewperf 11 - Maya 1920x1080
0% 100%
min: 3.46     avg: 3.5 (3%)     max: 3.46 fps
SPECviewperf 11 - Pro/ENGINEER 1920x1080
0% 100%
min: 2.15     avg: 2.2 (13%)     max: 2.15 fps
SPECviewperf 11 - SolidWorks 1920x1080
0% 100%
min: 12.24     avg: 12.2 (19%)     max: 12.24 fps
SPECviewperf 11 - Tcvis 1920x1080
0% 100%
min: 1.73     avg: 1.7 (3%)     max: 1.73 fps
SPECviewperf 11 - Siemens NX 1920x1080
0% 100%
min: 10.55     avg: 10.6 (17%)     max: 10.55 fps
Cinebench R11.5 - OpenGL 64Bit
0% 100%
min: 65.15     avg: 65.2 (74%)     max: 65.15 Points
Cinebench R10 - Shading 32Bit
0% 100%
min: 7382     avg: 7382 (68%)     max: 7382 Points
Windows 7 Experience Index - Graphics
0% 100%
min: 7.6     avg: 7.6 (96%)     max: 7.6 points
Windows 7 Experience Index - Gaming graphics
0% 100%
min: 7.6     avg: 7.6 (96%)     max: 7.6 points
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Dirt 3
Dirt 3 (2011)
low:
269.6  fps      Compare
med.:
161  fps      Compare
high:
132.9  fps      Compare
ultra:
67.8  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Crysis 2
Crysis 2 (2011)
low:
291.4  fps      Compare
med.:
212.1  fps      Compare
high:
162.5  fps      Compare
ultra:
65.6  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Total War: Shogun 2 (2011): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...
Call of Duty: Black Ops
low:
167.5  fps      Compare
med.:
122  fps      Compare
high:
118.4  fps      Compare
ultra:
106.4  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Fifa 11
Fifa 11 (2010)
low:
659.3  fps      Compare
med.:
398.7  fps      Compare
high:
347.7  fps      Compare
ultra:
353.5  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Civilization 5 (2010): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...
Mafia 2
Mafia 2 (2010)
low:
85.3  fps      Compare
med.:
86  fps      Compare
high:
89  fps      Compare
ultra:
86.4  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
StarCraft 2
StarCraft 2 (2010)
low:
330.9  fps      Compare
med.:
116.4  fps      Compare
high:
107.5  fps      Compare
ultra:
81.7  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Just Cause 2 (2010): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...
Metro 2033
Metro 2033 (2010)
low:
142.5  fps      Compare
med.:
128.1  fps      Compare
high:
99.2  fps      Compare
ultra:
37.6  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising (2010): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
low:
199.7  fps      Compare
med.:
196.6  fps      Compare
high:
184.8  fps      Compare
ultra:
110.2  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Stalker: Call of Pripyat (2010): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...
CoD Modern Warfare 2
low:
246.3  fps      Compare
med.:
116.4  fps      Compare
high:
110.4  fps      Compare
ultra:
87.3  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Risen
Risen (2009)
low:
165.2  fps      Compare
med.:
133.1  fps      Compare
high:
119.7  fps      Compare
ultra:
110.5  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5 (2009)
low:
200.2  fps      Compare
high:
141.6  fps      Compare
ultra:
143  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Need for Speed Shift
Need for Speed Shift (2009)
med.:
96.2  fps      Compare