Radeon 625 vs R9 370X

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated786
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.94
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTrinidadPolaris 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date27 August 2015 (9 years ago)13 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280384
Core clock speed980 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1030 MHz1024 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate82.4024.58
Floating-point processing power2.637 TFLOPS0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs8024

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2015 13 May 2019
Power consumption (TDP) 180 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 625 has an age advantage of 3 years, and 260% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 370X and Radeon 625. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 370X is a desktop card while Radeon 625 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 370X
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