ION 2 vs GeForce Go 7600 GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1213not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameG73GT218
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 August 2006 (18 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 cores1716
Core clock speed500 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed500 MHzno data
Number of transistors177 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data20 Watt
Texture fill rate6.0004.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.03424 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs128

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP

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 amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed600 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2006 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm

ION 2 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce Go 7600 GT and ION 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce Go 7600 GT is a notebook card while ION 2 is a desktop one.


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