ION 2: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started ION 2 sales 10 January 2010. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GT2xx architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 512 MB of DDR2, DDR3 memory clocked at 790 GHz are supplied.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 6/12 Watt.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name	GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	10 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Current price	$622	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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 cores	16	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	405 / 475 / 535 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	260 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	6/12 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	4.000	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on ION 2's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

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 type	DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	790 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	1.2

Benchmark performance

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

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