GeForce GTX 460M and ION 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 460M
ION 2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
N11E-GS
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2010
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Floating-point performance
518.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
16
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
6/12 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.1 billion/sec
4.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
790 MHz
Memory bandwidth
60.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API with Feature Level 12.1
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A