GeForce 945A vs Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce 945A and Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce 945A stacks up against Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 945A Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce 945A.
  • GeForce 945A is used in Desktops, and Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire - in Laptops.
  • GeForce 945A is build with Maxwell architecture, and Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 945A is 357 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire.
  • GeForce 945A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 945A is 4112 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 35−40
ultra / 1080p 5−6 21−24
QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 20−22 60−65
medium / 1080p 10−12 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 272% more, than GeForce 945A.

Full Specs

  GeForce 945A Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
Code name GM108 Blackcomb XTX
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 13 March 2015 12 July 2011
Pipelines 384 2240
Core clock speed 1072 MHz 715 MHz
Boost Clock 1189 MHz
Transistor count 2x1700 Million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 28.54
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 900 MHz
Memory bandwidth 40.1 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 5.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 108 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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