CMP 170HX vs Radeon 625

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking786not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.93no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 24GA100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date13 May 2019 (5 years ago)1 September 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$4,299

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 cores3844480
Core clock speed730 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed1024 MHz1410 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate24.58394.8
Floating-point processing power0.7864 TFLOPS12.63 TFLOPS
ROPs8128
TMUs24280
Tensor Coresno data280

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x4
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

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 typeDDR3HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1458 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s1,493 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)N/A
Shader Model6.3N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 May 2019 1 September 2021
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt

Radeon 625 has 400% lower power consumption.

CMP 170HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 625 and CMP 170HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 625 is a notebook card while CMP 170HX is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon 625
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