Radeon R6 Mobile Graphics vs ION 2
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1377 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 1.13 | no data |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) |
| GPU code name | GT218 | Spectre Lite |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 3 June 2008 (17 years ago) | 17 September 2014 (11 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | 384 |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | 533 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 800 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 260 million | 2,410 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | 17 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 4.000 | 12.79 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.03424 TFLOPS | 0.4093 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 4 | 8 |
| TMUs | 8 | 24 |
| L2 Cache | 32 KB | no data |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | System Shared |
| Shared memory | + | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | 12 (12_0) |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | 6.0 |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2.131 |
| CUDA | 1.2 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 3 June 2008 | 17 September 2014 |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | 17 Watt |
R6 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 6 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 17.6% lower power consumption.
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