NVIDIA started ION sales 3 June 2008. This is a Tesla architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCI interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about ION: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	1373
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.76	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	C7A-ION
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	3 June 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

ION's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of ION's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	450 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	282 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	20 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	3.600	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.0352 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	4	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	8	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of ION and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCI

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on ION: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	System Shared	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	System Shared	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on ION. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by ION, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of ION. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ION 0.22

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ION 84

Gaming performance

Let's see how good ION is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.