Intel GMA vs NVIDIA ION
We compared two Integrated graphics card GPUs: 0System Shared VRAM GMA and 0System Shared VRAM ION to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel GMA 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
NVIDIA ION 's Advantages
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
GMA Graphics-T
Generation
ION
Integrated
Type
Integrated
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
System Shared
Memory Clock
System Shared
Memory
System Shared
Memory Size
System Shared
System Shared
Memory Type
System Shared
System Shared
Memory Bus
System Shared
System Dependent
Bandwidth
System Dependent
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
1
-
Shading Units
16
2
TMUs
8
1
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
533.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
1.066 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
34.24 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
20W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Cloverview
GPU Name
GT218
-
-
-
PowerVR SGX545
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
32 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.26 billion
Unknown
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
ES 2.0
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
4.1
