ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs ION 2

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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
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGT218M82
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)7 January 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 cores1640
Core clock speed500 MHz680 MHz
Number of transistors260 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0002.720
Floating-point processing power0.03424 TFLOPS0.0544 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-II
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedDDR2
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 GB/s
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.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)10.1
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 7 January 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 12 Watt

ION 2 has an age advantage of 4 months, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

ATI Mobility HD 3470, on the other hand, has 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between ION 2 and Mobility Radeon HD 3470. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that ION 2 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 3470 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA ION 2
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