ION 2 and Radeon Xpress 1250 - video card comparison

ION 2

Radeon Xpress 1250

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3

RS690

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2010

August 2006

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

400 MHz

Core clock speed

405 / 475 / 535 MHz

400 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

120 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

4

Power consumption (TDP)

6/12 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

4.000

1.600

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)

9.0b (9_2)

CUDA

1.2

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A