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    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire vs Radeon R9 M290X

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon R9 M290X, 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 Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire stacks up against Radeon R9 M290X, check out specs charts below.
    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Check Price
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    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon R9 M290X are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon R9 M290X are only used in laptop graphics. They have 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 6970M Crossfire or Radeon R9 M290X here:

    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Laptops
    Radeon R9 M290X Laptops

    Main Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Radeon R9 M290X
    Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors None
    Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2x2 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Radeon R9 M290X has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R9 M290X - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon R9 M290X is 170 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 M290X - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R9 M290X is 300 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 21−24 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 12−14 10−11
    QHD / 1440p 7−8 4−5
    4K / 2160p 5−6 4−5
    low / 720p 40−45 30−35
    medium / 1080p 24−27 20−22
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 26% more, than Radeon R9 M290X.

    Full Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Radeon R9 M290X
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Blackcomb XT Neptune
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 6 January 2011 7 January 2014
    Pipelines 1920 1280
    Core clock speed 680 MHz 850 MHz
    Boost Clock 900 MHz
    Transistor count 2x1700 Million 2,800 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 72.00
    Floating-point performance 2,304 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 900 MHz 1200 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 5.1
    OpenGL 4.4
    OpenCL Not Listed
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0 x16
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 300 Mh/s
    Laptop size large large
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    DualGraphics +
    ZeroCore +
    Switchable graphics +
    Mantle +
    Compute units 20
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