ION 2: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

ION 2 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.33% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started ION 2 sales 3 June 2008. This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about ION 2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1305
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.13of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT218
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

ION 2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of ION 2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed500 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors260 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate4.000of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.03424 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs4of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of ION 2 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on ION 2: 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 typeSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on ION 2. 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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by ION 2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of ION 2. 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 2 0.33

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

ION 2 724

Gaming performance

Let's see how good ION 2 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.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Hitman 3 6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

Closest competitors

ION 2's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to ION 2 is Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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