AMD Radeon Add HD 6990M, DirectX 11 Compatible Mobile GPU

AMD has announced the launch of the Radeon HD 6990M GPU which was measured to be up to 25 percent faster than any other announced notebook enthusiast GPU* (numbers presented by AMD, yet to be confirmed by GDN). AMD Radeon graphic

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Performance Specs

Engine clock speed: 715 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 1.6 TeraFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 715M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 160 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 40 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 22.88 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 91.52 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 900 MHz
Memory data rate: 3.6 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 115.2 GB/sec

With the recently launched AMD

A-Series Accelerated Processing Units

(APU), AMD has set a new standard in graphics with AMD Radeon Dual Graphics, which comes to life when an APU is paired with one of select discrete AMD Radeon GPUs. With AMD CrossFireX technology**, gamers can immediately notice higher resolutions and greater image quality on DirectX 11 titles.

With this core innovation, industry trendsetters are choosing AMD. In fact, Apple now offers AMD Radeon HD graphics in its new 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro – their flagship notebooks designed for graphics professionals. Apple found that with AMD GPUs, users can expect to see up to 3x the performance over the previous generation’s graphics.***

The AMD Radeon HD 6990M also supports OpenCL, and AMD Eyefinity technology and features 2GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 memory, 1.6 teraFlops of compute power, 1120 stream processors times 2 – unleash epic domination.

* In tests conducted in AMD performance labs at 1920×1080, simulating mobile performance with a down-clocked desktop test system the AMD Radeon HD 6990M-based system was measured to be faster than the Nvidia GeForce 580M in the following benchmarks: Dragon Age 2 at 4AA/16AF (23.69% faster), Total War: Shogun 2 at 2xAA/16xAF (10.36% faster), Aliens vs. Predator at 2xAA/8xAF (13.19% faster), Batman: Arkham Asylum at 4xAA/16xAF (16.85% faster), ET: Quake Wars at 8xAA/16xAF (25.82% faster), Just Cause 2 at 0xAA/2xAF (14.22% faster), Left 4 Dead 2 at 0xAA/0xAF (8.30% faster), Metro2033 at AAA/4xAF (11.40% faster), The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena at 4xAA/8xAF (15.32% faster), Wolfenstein MP at 8xAA/16xAF (16.59% faster). Tests conducted with the following configuration: Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3, AMD Phenom II X4 965 (2.4GHz), 4GB (2GBX2GB), DDR3 system memory, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate operating system. Drivers: AMD Catalyst 8.861 RC1, NVIDIA Driver 275.33 WHQL.

** AMD CrossFireX technology requires an AMD CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an AMD CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.

*** Testing conducted by Apple, Inc. in February 2011 using preproduction 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7–based 17-inch MacBook Pro units and preproduction 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7–based 15-inch MacBook Pro units with AMD Radeon HD 6750M. 2.53GHz Intel Core i5–based 17-inch MacBook Pro systems and 2.66GHz Intel Core i7–based 15-inch MacBook Pro systems with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M were production units. All systems were configured with 4GB of RAM. Tested at native resolutions using Portal v(4295)(400) and Half Life 2 Episode 2 v(4295)(420) with 4x antialiasing and high graphics quality. Half Life 2 Episode 2 timedemo test file: Storm. Portal timedemo test file: Mydemo1. MacBook Pro continuously monitors system thermal and power conditions, and may adjust processor speed as needed to maintain optimal system operation.

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AMD Radeon HD 6990M Tech Specs

TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 1120 Stream Processing Units
- 56 Texture Units
- 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 32 Color ROP Units
GDDR5 memory interface
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
“DirectX 11 Evolved” graphics
- DirectX 11 support
  - Shader Model 5.0
  - DirectCompute 11
  - Programmable hardware tessellation unit
  - Accelerated multi-threading
  - HDR texture compression
  - Order-independent transparency
- OpenGL 4.1 support
- Image quality enhancement technology
  - Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
  - Adaptive anti-aliasing
  - Morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA)
  - 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
  - 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology²
- Support for up to 6 simultaneous displays
  - Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
- Display grouping
- Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
AMD CrossFireX multi-GPU technology⁵
- Dual GPU scaling
AMD App Acceleration³
- OpenCL 1.1 support¹
- DirectCompute 11
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^6,7,8
- UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
  - MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
  - VC-1
  - MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
  - Multi-View Codec (MVC)⁹
  - MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid)
  - Adobe Flash¹⁰
- Enhanced video quality features
  - Advanced post-processing and scaling⁸
  - Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
  - Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
  - Independent video gamma control
  - Dynamic video range control
- Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support¹¹
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
AMD HD3D technology⁴
- Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
- Blu-ray 3D support
- Stereoscopic 3D gaming support
- 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
Cutting-edge integrated display support
- Dual-link DVI with HDCP¹²
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
- DisplayPort 1.2
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
  - Multi-Stream Transport
  - 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
  - High bit-rate audio
- HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
  - Max resolution: 1920x1200¹³
- VGA
  - Max resolution: 2048x1536¹³
Integrated HD audio controller
- Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
- Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio formats
AMD PowerPlay power management technology
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
AMD Catalyst Software and HD video configuration software
- Unified graphics display drivers
  - Certified for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
- AMD Catalyst Control Center
  - Software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing special features of AMD Radeon products

For note on all footnote markers, see the AMD Radeon HD 6990M product page