ION 2 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	149	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	25.06	no data
Power efficiency	11.30	no data
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	Vega 10	GT218
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	14 August 2017 (7 years ago)	3 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	3584	16
Core clock speed	1156 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	1471 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	12,500 million	260 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	20 Watt
Texture fill rate	329.5	4.000
Floating-point processing power	10.54 TFLOPS	0.03424 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	4
TMUs	224	8

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 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	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	HBM2	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	6.4	4.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.125	N/A
CUDA	-	1.2

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	14 August 2017	3 June 2008
Chip lithography	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	20 Watt

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