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).
Radeon HD 6900M Series
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| 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 | no | |||||||||||||||
| API | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 | |||||||||||||||
| Transistor Count | 0 Billion | |||||||||||||||
| technology | 40 nm | |||||||||||||||
| Notebook Size | large | |||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 12.07.2011 | |||||||||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.amd.com | |||||||||||||||
Benchmarks
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
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- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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.
Dirt 3
2011
Crysis 2
2011
Fifa 11
2010
Mafia 2
2010
StarCraft 2
2010
Metro 2033
2010
CoD Modern Warfare 2
2009
Risen
2009
Resident Evil 5
2009
Need for Speed Shift
2009| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dirt 3 | 269.6 | 161 | 132.9 | 67.8 | ||
| Crysis 2 | 291.4 | 212.1 | 162.5 | 65.6 | ||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops | 167.5 | 122 | 118.4 | 106.4 | ||
| Fifa 11 | 659 | 398.7 | 347.7 | 353.5 | ||
| Mafia 2 | 85.3 | 86 | 89 | 86.4 | ||
| StarCraft 2 | 330.9 | 116.4 | 107.5 | 81.7 | ||
| Metro 2033 | 142.5 | 128.1 | 99.2 | 37.6 | ||
| Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 199.7 | 196.6 | 184.8 | 110.2 | ||
| CoD Modern Warfare 2 | 246.3 | 116.4 | 110.4 | 87.3 | ||
| Risen | 165.2 | 133.1 | 119.7 | 110.5 | ||
| Resident Evil 5 | 200.2 | 141.6 | 143 | |||
| Need for Speed Shift | 96.2 | 70.8 | 46.1 | |||
| < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 10 | 4 7 | 7 5 | 2 8 2 | | |
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
Notebook reviews with AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire graphics card
Alienware M18x, 6990M: Intel Core i7-2920XM, 18.40", 5.5 kg
External Review » Alienware M18x, 6990M
