HD Graphics 505 and ION 2 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 505
ION 2
Architecture
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Apollo Lake
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2016
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x1
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
750 MHz
-
Core clock speed
300 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Floating-point performance
230.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
189 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
18
16
Power consumption (TDP)
10 Watt
6/12 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.70
4.000
Memory type
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
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
12 (12_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.1
Vulkan
1.1.97
N/A
Quick Sync
+
-