Radeon HD 3550 and ION - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3550
ION
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV620
C7A-ION
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2008
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Core clock speed
594 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
47.52 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
282 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
16
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.376
3.600
Memory type
DDR2
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
64 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
792 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
6.336 GB/s
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Display Connectors
2x DisplayPort
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A