NVIDIA ION HX: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started ION HX sales 3 June 2008. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCI interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about ION HX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | ION | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 3 June 2008 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
ION HX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of ION HX'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 HX 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 HX: 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 HX. 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 HX, 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 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to ION HX is Radeon HD 6310.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
