NVIDIA ION vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2
What is the difference between NVIDIA ION and ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| GT218 | GPU Name | RV630 |
| Tesla 2.0 | Architecture | TeraScale |
| TSMC | Foundry | TSMC |
| 40 nm | Process Size | 65 nm |
| 260 million | Transistors | 390 million |
| 57 mm² | Die Size | 153 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Jun 3rd, 2008 | Release Date | Jul 26th, 2007 |
| ION | Family | Radeon R600 (HD 2600) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| PCIe 2.0 x16 | Bus Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Memory
| System Shared | Memory Size | 512 MB x2 |
| System Shared | Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| System Shared | Memory Bus | 128 bit x2 |
Clock Speeds
| System Shared | Memory Clock | 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective |
| 500 MHz | GPU Clock | 800 MHz |
Render Config
| 8 | TMUs | 8 x2 |
| 4 | ROPs | 4 x2 |
Board Design
| 20 W | Thermal design power (TDP) | unknown |
| No outputs | Display Connectors | 4x DVI 1x S-Video |
API support
| 11.1 (10_1) | DirectX | 10.0 (10_0) |
| 3.3 | OpenGL | 3.3 |
| 1.1 | OpenCL | N/A |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |
| 4.1 | Shader Model | 4.0 |