ION vs ION 2

Place in the ranking	1305	1373
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.13	0.75
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	GT218	C7A-ION
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	3 June 2008 (16 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 cores	16	16
Core clock speed	500 MHz	450 MHz
Number of transistors	260 million	282 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	20 Watt	20 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.000	3.600
Floating-point processing power	0.03424 TFLOPS	0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	8	8

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).

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCI

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 type	System Shared	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	System Shared
Memory bus width	System Shared	System Shared
Memory clock speed	System Shared	System Shared
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 Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.1	4.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.2	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

2−3
+100%

1−2

−100%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Hitman 3	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 +55.6%	18−20 −55.6%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Hitman 3	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9−10 +50%	6−7 −50%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 +55.6%	18−20 −55.6%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Hitman 3	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9−10 +50%	6−7 −50%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 +55.6%	18−20 −55.6%