ION 2 and ION - video card comparison
ION 2
ION
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
C7A-ION
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2010
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI
Core clock speed
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
282 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
6/12 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
3.600
Memory type
DDR2, DDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
64 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
790 MHz
System Shared
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.2
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A