AMD Launches Radeon HD 6990M – World’s Fastest Mobile Gaming GPU

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD today launched the AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPU — the world’s fastest single mobile graphics processor — an uncompromising GPU that delivers massive computing power to mobile users. The AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPU was measured to be up to 25 percent faster than any other announced notebook enthusiast GPU. Furthermore, hardcore gamers can experience additional gaming performance through AMD CrossFireX technology. This GPU has 1120 Stream Processing Units running at 715MHz! This is enough power to hit 1.6 TeraFLOPS of single precision compute power and remember this is in a notebook! The GDDR5 memory is clocked at 900MHz with a peak memory bandwith of 115.2 GB/sec. This notebook GPU is going to make many desktop PCs look slow and we can’t wait to get our hands on a review unit to give it a test drive!

AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPU

  • 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

The AMD Radeon HD 6990M also represents a significant upgrade from AMD’s current gaming notebook graphics solution, the AMD Radeon HD 6970M, raising the bar from both a performance and image quality perspective. With support for DirectX 11, users can expect ultra-fast frame rates and superior image quality, which gives gamers every advantage their desktop computers once enjoyed exclusively. With AMD Eyefinity technology users can immerse themselves in an ultra-rich environment that supports up to six displays. The AMD Radeon HD 6990M graphics processor also delivers AMD App Acceleration technology, which uses the power of the GPU to improve video playback, streaming and faster web browsing with Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox. AMD HD3D technology ensures mobile users aren’t just watching videos or viewing pictures — rather they become immersed in a truly stereoscopic 3D environment backed by an open ecosystem with supporting software and hardware.

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