GeForce 820A vs Radeon HD 6990

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce 820A and Radeon HD 6990. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between GeForce 820A and Radeon HD 6990. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Main Specs

  GeForce 820A Radeon HD 6990
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 375 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6990 has 2400% more power consumption, than GeForce 820A.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon HD 6990 has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce 820A.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • GeForce 820A is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 6990 - with TeraScale 3.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 55 MHz higher, than GeForce 820A.
  • GeForce 820A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6990 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 3200 MHz higher, than GeForce 820A.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 14−16
ultra / 1080p 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 1−2 30−35
medium / 1080p 0−1 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6990 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3100% more, than GeForce 820A.

Full Specs

  GeForce 820A Radeon HD 6990
Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale 3
Code name GF117 Antilles
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 17 March 2014 8 March 2011
Pipelines 96 1536
Core clock speed 775 MHz 830 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 12.40 79.68
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops 2x 2,549.8 gflops
Length 295 mm
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB/s 160.0 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.1
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 265 Mh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 24 Mh/s
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