Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 6990 - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon HD 6990
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
Vega
Antilles
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2020
March 2011
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
2100 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
830 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 2,549.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
375 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
79.68
Memory type
-
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
2 GB
Memory bus width
-
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
160.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
12_1
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A