ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 vs NVIDIA ION 2

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGT2xx (2009−2012)Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameGT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3M92-SE
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years old)9 January 2009 (15 years old)
Current price$622 no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1680
Core clock speed405 / 475 / 535 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors260 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)6/12 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.0003.600
Floating-point performanceno data72 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on ION 2 and Mobility Radeon HD 4330 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.

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

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 typeDDR2, DDR3GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed790 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data9.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

ION 2 724
+10.4%
ATI Mobility HD 4330 656

ION 2 outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 4330 by 10% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 10 January 2010 9 January 2009
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

We couldn't decide between ION 2 and Mobility Radeon HD 4330. We've got no test results to judge.


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