ION 2 and Radeon HD 8590M - video card comparison
ION 2
Radeon HD 8590M
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2010
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
-
825 MHz
Core clock speed
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
620 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
260 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
384
Power consumption (TDP)
6/12 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
4.000
16.50
Memory type
DDR2, DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
790 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.2
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131