AMD Radeon 530 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 530 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 530

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
  • 3.3x better floating-point performance: 800 GFLOPs vs 240.0 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1016 vs 479
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 175 vs 141
  • 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5026 vs 2229
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2021 vs 999
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3355 vs 3257
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2021 vs 999
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3355 vs 3257
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 1 October 2012
Pipelines 384 vs 96
Floating-point performance 800 GFLOPs vs 240.0 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1016 vs 479
PassMark - G2D Mark 175 vs 141
Geekbench - OpenCL 5026 vs 2229
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2021 vs 999
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355 vs 3257
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2021 vs 999
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355 vs 3257

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2333 vs 2246
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2333 vs 2246
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2333 vs 2246
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2333 vs 2246

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 530
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1016
479
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
175
141
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
5026
2229
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2021
999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2246
2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3355
3257
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2021
999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2246
2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3355
3257
Name AMD Radeon 530 NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1016 479
PassMark - G2D Mark 175 141
Geekbench - OpenCL 5026 2229
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2021 999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2246 2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355 3257
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2021 999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2246 2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355 3257
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 506

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 530 NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

Essentials

Architecture GCN Fermi 2.0
Code name Meso GF117
Design Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 1 October 2012
Place in performance rating 1112 1208
Type Desktop, Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1024 MHz
Compute units 6
Core clock speed 1024 MHz
Floating-point performance 800 GFLOPs 240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 96
Pixel fill rate 8.20 GP/s
Render output units 8
Stream Processors 320/384
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s
Texture Units 20/24
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt
CUDA cores 96
Transistor count 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 12 API
OpenCL 2.0 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3/GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
3D Blu-Ray
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus