ION vs ATI Radeon X600 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1396
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.99
ArchitectureR300 (2003−2008)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV380C79
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 September 2004 (20 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 coresno data16
Core clock speed500 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors75 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate2.0003.600
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCI
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed370 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth11.84 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX9.011.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2004 18 June 2008
Chip lithography 130 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 20 Watt

ION has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X600 XT and ION. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X600 XT is a desktop graphics card while ION is a notebook one.

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