ION 2 and Radeon 7500 - video card comparison
ION 2
Radeon 7500
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
RV200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2010
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
6/12 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
1.740
Memory type
DDR2, DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
790 MHz
460 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
7.36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
7.0
CUDA
1.2
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.3
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A