ION vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

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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
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV620C7A-ION
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 August 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 cores4016
Core clock speed594 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors181 million282 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate2.3763.600
Floating-point processing power0.04752 TFLOPS0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

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 x16PCI
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed396 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.336 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 Connectors2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2008 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 20 Watt

ATI HD 3550 has an age advantage of 2 months, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

ION, on the other hand, has 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3550 and ION. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3550 is a desktop card while ION is a notebook one.


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