ION vs Radeon E8950
Aggregate performance score
We've compared Radeon E8950 and ION, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.
E8950 outperforms ION by a whopping 4919% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 418 | 1413 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 10.54 | 1.00 |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2019) | Tesla (2006−2010) |
| GPU code name | Amethyst | C79 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 29 September 2015 (10 years ago) | 18 June 2008 (17 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 | 2048 | 16 |
| Core clock speed | 735 MHz | 450 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1000 MHz | no data |
| Number of transistors | 5,000 million | 314 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 65 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | 20 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 128.0 | 3.600 |
| Floating-point processing power | 4.096 TFLOPS | 0.0352 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 32 | 4 |
| TMUs | 128 | 8 |
| L1 Cache | 512 KB | no data |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 32 KB |
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 | MXM-B (3.0) | PCI |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | no data |
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 | GDDR5 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.0 GB/s | no data |
| 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 | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 11.1 (10_0) |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | 4.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 3.3 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | N/A |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | N/A |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 13.05 | 0.26 |
| Recency | 29 September 2015 | 18 June 2008 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 65 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | 20 Watt |
Radeon E8950 has a 4919.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.
ION, on the other hand, has 375% lower power consumption.
The Radeon E8950 is our recommended choice as it beats the ION in performance tests.
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