Quadro2 Go vs ION

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameC7A-IONNV11 B3
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)14 August 2001 (23 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 cores16no data
Core clock speed450 MHz143 MHz
Number of transistors282 million20 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.6000.29
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs82

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).

InterfacePCIAGP 4x
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared32 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared181 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data2.896 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)7.0
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.31.2
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 14 August 2001
Chip lithography 65 nm 180 nm

ION has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 176.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between ION and Quadro2 Go. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that ION is a desktop card while Quadro2 Go is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA ION
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