Intel GMA X3500 vs NVIDIA ION
We compared two Integrated graphics card GPUs: 0System Shared VRAM GMA X3500 and 0System Shared VRAM ION to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel GMA X3500 's Advantages
Lower TDP (13W vs 20W)
NVIDIA ION 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Jun 2008
GMA Graphics
Generation
ION
Integrated
Type
Integrated
FSB
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
8
TMUs
8
1
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
667.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
5.336 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
34.24 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
13W
TDP
20W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Bearlake
GPU Name
GT218
Bearlake (G35)
GPU Variant
-
Generation 4.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.26 billion
Unknown
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
4.1
