Radeon HD 7290 and ION 2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7290
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
IGP
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
16
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
6/12 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
4.000
Memory type
System Shared
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
512 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
790 MHz
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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