NVIDIA GeForce G105M vs NVIDIA ION 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G105M and NVIDIA ION 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce G105M

NVIDIA ION 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G105M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 20 Watt
Around 42% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1314 vs 928
Around 42% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1314 vs 928

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	1600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1314 vs 928
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1314 vs 928

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION 2

2x more pipelines: 16 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm

Pipelines	16 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G105M
GPU 2: NVIDIA ION 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1314

928

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1314

928

Name	NVIDIA GeForce G105M	NVIDIA ION 2
PassMark - G3D Mark	63
PassMark - G2D Mark	22
Geekbench - OpenCL	2534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1314	928
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1314	928

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce G105M	NVIDIA ION 2
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla 2.0
Code name	G98	GT218
Launch date	8 January 2009	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1665	1668
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1600 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	8
Floating-point performance	25.6 gflops
Gigaflops	38
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	8	16
Texture fill rate	5.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	VGADual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortHDMI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	8 (DDR2) / 11 (GDDR3)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 (DDR2) / 700 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
Power management	8.0