Radeon HD 6290 and ION 2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6290
ION 2
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Zacate
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
July 2011
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Floating-point performance
104 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
16
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
6/12 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.200
4.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
790 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A