Radeon R5 M445 vs ION 2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1391not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.16no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGT218Meso
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 June 2008 (17 years ago)2016 (10 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 cores16384
Core clock speed500 MHz920 MHz
Boost clock speedno data980 MHz
Number of transistors260 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.00022.08
Floating-point processing power0.03424 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48
TMUs824
L2 Cache32 KBno data

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x8

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 SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared4 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data32 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

R5 M445 has a 43% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between ION 2 and Radeon R5 M445. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that ION 2 is a notebook graphics card while Radeon R5 M445 is a desktop one.

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