Radeon RX 570 and ION 2 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 570

ION 2

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GT2xx (2009−2012)

GPU code name

Polaris 20 Ellesmere

GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2017

January 2010

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

-

Boost clock speed

1244 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1168 MHz

405 / 475 / 535 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,095 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

16

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

6/12 Watt

Texture fill rate

159.2

4.000

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR2, DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

790 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

-

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

6.4

4.1

Vulkan

+

N/A

FreeSync

+

-