Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs ION

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1373not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.76no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameC7A-IONNavi 14
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 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 cores161408
Core clock speed450 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1845 MHz
Number of transistors282 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate3.600162.4
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPS5.196 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs888

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data180 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

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 SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 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 outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 7 October 2019
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 110 Watt

ION has 450% lower power consumption.

RX 5500 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between ION and Radeon RX 5500 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that ION is a notebook card while Radeon RX 5500 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA ION
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