ION 2 and FirePro V9800 - video card comparison
ION 2
FirePro V9800
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Cypress
Market segment
Laptop
Workstation
Release date
January 2010
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
6/12 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
68.00
Memory type
DDR2, DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
790 MHz
4600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
147.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.2
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A