Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire vs Radeon R5 430 OEM

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire and Radeon R5 430 OEM. 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 Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire and Radeon R5 430 OEM. 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.

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

  Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire Radeon R5 430 OEM
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x2 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire and Radeon R5 430 OEM have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon R5 430 OEM - in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R5 430 OEM - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon R5 430 OEM is 15 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire.
  • Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R5 430 OEM - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon R5 430 OEM is 3700 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 1−2
ultra / 1080p 21−24 0−1
QHD / 1440p 16−18 0−1
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 12−14
medium / 1080p 40−45 3−4
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 683% more, than Radeon R5 430 OEM.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire Radeon R5 430 OEM
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
Code name Blackcomb XTX Oland
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 12 July 2011 30 June 2016
Pipelines 2240 384
Core clock speed 715 MHz 730 MHz
Boost Clock 780 MHz
Transistor count 2x1700 Million 950 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 18.72
Floating-point performance 599.0 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 4600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 36.8 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (11_1)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
Laptop size large
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