ION vs FirePro RG220A

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV711C7A-ION
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 May 2010 (14 years ago)3 June 2008 (16 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 cores8016
Core clock speed500 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors242 million282 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0003.600
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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 2.0 x16PCI
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2010 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 20 Watt

RG220A has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

ION, on the other hand, has 75% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro RG220A and ION. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro RG220A is a workstation graphics card while ION is a desktop one.


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