Some time ago, Nvidia GeForce GTX580M crowned as the fastest notebook graphics card on earth. But not long after AMD released a product that managed to beat prowess, the Radeon HD 6990M. AMD Radeon HD 6990M has now been crowned as the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to beat the fastest Nvidia GeForce GTX580M with a total performance up to 25% better. At least, that the results of testing conducted by AMD.


AMD Radeon HD 6990M is an upgraded version of the Radeon HD 6970M, which is also armed with several features like HD3D technology, Eyefinity multi-display technology, and DirectX 11. Latest GPU is reinforced with 1120 units of stream processors, 56 texture units, 128 Z / Stencil units, 32 ROP, and 900MHz GDDR5 memory capacity of 2GB. All that is maximized with the data path width of 256-bits.

That said, Dell Alienware M18x notebook will be the first to use the GPUs in CrossFireX mode. Then followed several brands such as Clevo and Eurocom.

A few weeks ago, Nvidia is proud to say that the GeForce GTX 580M is the world's fastest notebook GPUs at this time. However, rival AMD as it has a different opinion. RadeonHD 6990M with support for DirectX11 and HD30 make AMD's latest GPU is becoming the world's fastest notebook GPU at 25% less drag than ordinary GPU that has been circulating in the market.

Meanwhile, AMD's answer to Nvidia's GeForce 6970M GTX 580M is RadeonHD. According to AMD, RadeonHD 6970M can easily beat the GeForce GTX 580M in bencahmark AVP and in games like Batman Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age 2, Shogun 2, BattleForge, Left 4 Dead, metro2033, Wolfstein MP, The Chronicles of Riddick, and ET : Quake Wars.

RadeonHD 6990M also supports the technology of artificial Eyefinity AMD, also has the ability of GPU acceleration. GPU that AMD's fastest claimed this would be a source of graphics processors from Alienware M18x notebook with Nvidia 580M.