ION 2 and Radeon RX 6550S - video card comparison

ION 2

Radeon RX 6550S

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3

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Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2010

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

2170 MHz

Core clock speed

405 / 475 / 535 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

6/12 Watt

50 Watt (35 - 50 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

4.000

153.6

Memory type

DDR2, DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

790 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

128.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.2

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.2

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3