NVIDIA ION 2 vs AMD Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L)

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1146not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code nameBeema/MullinsGT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 April 2014 (9 years old)10 January 2010 (14 years old)
Current priceno data$622

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 cores12816
Core clock speed300 MHz405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data260 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data6/12 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.000

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) and ION 2 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.

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataDDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data790 MHz
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 dataNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkanno dataN/A
CUDAno data1.2

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%

R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) 1178
+62.7%
ION 2 724

Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) outperforms ION 2 by 63% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 29 April 2014 10 January 2010
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

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