ION: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
ION provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.24% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
Contents
Summary
NVIDIA started ION sales 18 June 2008. This is a Tesla architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCI interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about ION: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1403 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 0.97 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | C79 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 18 June 2008 (17 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
ION's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of ION's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 450 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 314 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.600 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0352 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L2 Cache | 32 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of ION and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCI |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on ION: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Shared memory | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on ION. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by ION, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of ION. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Send your test results of ION.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to ION is Radeon HD 7290, which is faster by 4% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to ION:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with ION according to our statistics.
