HD Graphics 400 and ION 2 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 400
ION 2
Architecture
Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Braswell GT1
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2015
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x1
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
640 MHz
-
Core clock speed
320 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Floating-point performance
134.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
189 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
16
Power consumption (TDP)
6 Watt
6/12 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.680
4.000
Memory type
DDR3L
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
790 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.3
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.1.80
N/A