ION and R300 - video card comparison

ION

R300

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

R300

GPU code name

C7A-ION

R300

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

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Interface

PCI

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Core clock speed

450 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

282 million

110 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

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Power consumption (TDP)

20 Watt

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Texture fill rate

3.600

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Memory type

System Shared

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Maximum RAM amount

System Shared

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Memory bus width

System Shared

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Memory clock speed

System Shared

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0 (9_0)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

Shader Model

4.0

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Vulkan

N/A

N/A