NVIDIA unveils ION 2 platform

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited March 2010 in Science & Tech
NVIDIA unveils ION 2 platform

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  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    Any credibility to the rumors that the ION2 is outperformed by the original ION?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    Hard to say. ION 2 for netbooks has 8 shaders, whereas ION 1 had 16. ION 1 was its own chipset, so it supported 3-4GB of memory, whereas ION 2 is just a GPU and is therefore limited to 2GB by the Intel chipset. ION 1 is DirectX 10, whereas ION 2 is DirectX 10.1, indicating a much newer core architecture.

    On paper, it's a mixed bag. If I had to speculate, though, I'd say ION 2 is probably faster.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    I think the primary goal in engineering was to continue to extend battery life while not making huge compromises in performance.
  • miragemirage
    edited March 2010
    Sue this Intel. Here, no license necessary and Atom is still more attractive with Nvidia ... in an ingenious way.
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