GeForce 8600 GT and ION 2 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
ION 2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
G84
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
16
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
6/12 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
4.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
790 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A