ION LE vs ATI GameCube GPU

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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
ArchitectureRage 5 (2000)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameFlipperION
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date24 August 2000 (24 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 coresno data16
Core clock speed162 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors51 million282 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate0.653.600
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

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).

InterfaceIGPPCI

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 typeSDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed162 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth1.296 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.0+11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLN/A3.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 August 2000 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 180 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 20 Watt

ION LE has an age advantage of 7 years, a 176.9% more advanced lithography process, and 125% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GameCube GPU and ION LE. We've got no test results to judge.


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