Radeon 625 vs ATI 9800 PRO MAXX

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated789
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.93
ArchitectureR300 (2005−2008)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameR350Polaris 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 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 speed380 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors117 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)94 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate3.04024.58
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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 3.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 speed680 MBps900 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.76 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo 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


Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 94 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 625 has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 435.7% more advanced lithography process, and 88% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9800 PRO MAXX and Radeon 625. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9800 PRO MAXX is a desktop card while Radeon 625 is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon 9800 PRO MAXX
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