ION vs ATI Radeon Xpress 2100 IGP

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1376
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.75
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRS780C7A-ION
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 March 2008 (16 years ago)3 June 2008 (16 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 cores4016
Core clock speed500 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors180 million282 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data20 Watt
Texture fill rate2.0003.600
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPS0.0352 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
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memoryno data+

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.0N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 March 2008 3 June 2008

ION has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Xpress 2100 IGP and ION. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Xpress 2100 IGP is a desktop card while ION is a notebook one.


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