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).

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon HD 6900M Series

Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire	2240 @ 0.72 GHz	256 Bit @ 900 MHz
Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire	1920 @ 0.68 GHz	256 Bit @ 900 MHz
Radeon HD 6990M	1120 @ 0.72 GHz	256 Bit @ 900 MHz
Radeon HD 6970M	960 @ 0.68 GHz	256 Bit @ 900 MHz
Radeon HD 6950M	960 @ 0.58 GHz	256 Bit @ 900 MHz

Codename

Blackcomb XTX

Architecture

Terascale 2

Pipelines

2240 - unified

Core Speed

715 MHz

Memory Speed

900 MHz

Memory Bus Width

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Max. Amount of Memory

2x2048 MB

Shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0

Transistor Count

2x1700 Million

technology

40 nm

Notebook Size

large

Date of Announcement

12.07.2011

Link to Manufacturer Page

http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/...

Benchmarks

3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score

min: 6584 avg: 6593 median: 6593 (16%) max: 6602 Points

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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU

6422 Points (11%)

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AMD Radeon HD 6250 -97%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI -7%

NVIDIA Quadro P1000 -6%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 -6%

NVIDIA GeForce MX350 -6%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M -5%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M -5%

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000) -5%

AMD Radeon HD 7870 -4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M SLI 0%

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs 0%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 5%

AMD Radeon Pro 460 5%

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 6%

AMD Radeon R9 M390 6%

NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX SLI 10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 11%

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 821%

100%

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +

3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +

3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard

102766 Points (54%)

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3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard

28941 Points (42%)

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 -100%

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ATI Radeon HD 5770 -7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX -7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M -5%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 -5%

AMD Radeon HD 6790 -4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M -4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI -2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti -1%

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 0%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1%

AMD Radeon HD 7870 2%

AMD Radeon HD 7970 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M SLI 3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX SLI 3%

AMD Radeon HD 6870 4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 6%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super (Desktop) 83%

100%

3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Heaven 2.1 - Heaven 2.1 high

73.5 fps (14%)

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AMD Radeon HD 7310 -99%

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NVIDIA Quadro K5000M -14%

NVIDIA Quadro P1000 -14%

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire -11%

AMD Radeon HD 6870 -8%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M -7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M -6%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M SLI -3%

AMD FirePro M6100 -2%

NVIDIA Quadro M2000M -1%

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2%

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 3%

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 6%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M SLI 7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 11%

AMD Radeon RX 5600M 12%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI 12%

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 (Laptop) 624%

100%

SPECviewperf 11
specvp11 snx-01 +

specvp11 lightwave-01 +

specvp11 ensight-04 +

specvp11 catia-03 +

Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics

7.6 Points (96%)

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics

7.6 Points (96%)

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Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +

Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +

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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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.