Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s (AMD) Fusion processors may be stealing the spotlight, but AMD is determined to show gamers that it still wants to give them a whole lot of love. With Radeon 6990 being arguably the king of single-card desktop graphics performance today, AMD has unleashed a powerful mobile GPU that it claims is "the world's fastest notebook GPU." The chip is named the Rade
on 6990.
This GPU will pack 1.7 billion transistors onto the die and feature a clock speed of 715MHz. Combine this with 1,120 stream processors and up to 2GB of GDDR5 RAM clocked at 900MHz and you have a piece of silicon capable of 1.6 TFLOPs of compute power, and over 115GB/s of memory bandwidth.
“There’s always been a belief that when it comes to mobile computing you need to make performance compromises. Today AMD demolishes that myth,” said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, GPU division, AMD. “The AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPU, which not only packs AMD Eyefinity technology with unprecedented specs, also provides full Microsoft DirectX 11 and Stereo 3D support. Bottom line, this processor is epic and it’s here — now.”
Though GPU specifically focuses on gaming, it does support up to six displays. There's OpenCL support and AMD's HD3D technology for stereoscopic 3D. Depending on laptop vendor choices the Radeon HD6990M can output through dual-link DVI, Displayport 1.2, HDMI 1.4a and even D-Sub, insiders informed
AMD offers up some impressive benchmarks for this silicone (note that these are AMD’s own benchmarks and not externally verified). Here is the HD 6990M up against NVIDIA’s 580M running at at 1920×1080:
- 26.82^ faster in ET: Quake Wars (8xAA/16xAF)
- 23.69% faster in Dragon Age 2 (4xAA/16xAF)
- 16.59% faster in Wolfenstein MP (8xAA/16xAF)
Systems based around the HD 6990M will include the Alienware M18x, Clevo X7200, P170HM, P150HM, and various systems from Eurocom.
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