Radeon 620 vs ATI 9700 PRO X4

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated844
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.23
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameR300Polaris 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 July 2002 (22 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 coresno data384
Core clock speed325 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors110 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate2.60024.58
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs88
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
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x MolexNone

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 typeDDRDDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed310 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.84 GB/s14.4 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 Connectors4x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.3
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2002 13 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 28 nm

Radeon 620 has an age advantage of 16 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9700 PRO X4 and Radeon 620. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9700 PRO X4 is a desktop card while Radeon 620 is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon 9700 PRO X4
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