HD Graphics 3000 and ION 2 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
ION 2
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
February 2011
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
16
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
6/12 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.80
4.000
Memory type
System Shared
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
512 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
790 MHz
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A