GeForce GT 625M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1036
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data5.71
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameM86GF117
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2008 (16 years ago)1 October 2012 (12 years ago)

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 cores12096
Core clock speed500 MHzUp to 625 MHz
Number of transistors378 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate4.00010.00
Floating-point processing power0.12 TFLOPS0.24 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs816

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedmedium sized
Bus supportno dataPCI Express 2.0
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sUp to 14.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
HDMI-+
HDCP-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno dataUp to 2048x1536

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray-+
Optimus-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 API
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.5
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2008 1 October 2012
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 15 Watt

GT 625M has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3650 and GeForce GT 625M. We've got no test results to judge.


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