Radeon 625 vs Quadro FX 470

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 data3.93
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameC79Polaris 24
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 September 2007 (17 years ago)13 May 2019 (5 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 cores16384
Core clock speed580 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors314 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)38 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate4.64024.58
Floating-point processing power0.0448 TFLOPS0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x8
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 September 2007 13 May 2019
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 38 Watt 50 Watt

FX 470 has 31.6% lower power consumption.

Radeon 625, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 470 and Radeon 625. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 470 is a workstation card while Radeon 625 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 470
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