ION 2: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

ION 2 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.28% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started ION 2 sales 3 June 2008. This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about ION 2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1370
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.13of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT218
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

ION 2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of ION 2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed500 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors260 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate4.000of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power0.03424 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs4of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs8of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache32 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of ION 2 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on ION 2: 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 typeSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Shared memory+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on ION 2. 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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by ION 2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of ION 2. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

ION 2
0.28

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

ION 2 724

Gaming performance

Let's see how good ION 2 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6

Full HD
Medium

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 7−8
Valorant 24−27

Full HD
High

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 12−14
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Dota 2 9−10
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6
Metro Exodus 0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5−6
Valorant 24−27

Full HD
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Dota 2 9−10
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5−6
Valorant 24−27

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 2−3
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 3−4

1440p
Ultra

Forza Horizon 4 1−2
Hogwarts Legacy 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 0−1

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 0−1

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 14−16
Valorant 2−3

4K
Ultra

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 1−2

4K
Epic

Fortnite 2−3

Closest competitors

ION 2's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to ION 2 is Radeon HD 6310, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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