Thursday, February 25th, 2010...12:56 am
Next Generation of Nvidia Ion will come in 2 Versions
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Netbooknews managed to benchmark the upcoming 10-inch Acer Aspire 532G netbook which packs Nvidia ION 2 graphics a little while ago, and found there was little improvement over the current Nvidia Ion graphics chipset. Now comes news that apparently that ION 2 benchmark was actually a lower end version of the upcoming Nvidia Ion 2. According to Fudzilla, there are two versions of ION 2 though it won’t be branded as ION 2, just ION. The higher end version, supposedly, has yet to be seen but it should be faster than the Netbooknews tested. We hope so…
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April 18th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
[...] Nvidia and Intel are going toe-to-toe in the netbook graphics market. The Intel’s Atom is the processor of choice for netbooks at the moment, and within it is Intel’s entry in the graphics showdown, the GMA 3150 graphics chip. However, the integrated GMA 3150 graphics from Intel do not have the ability to display HD video, or run high resolution games. So, Nvidia seized upon this weakness with Ion, a supplemental graphics chip designed to work with Intel’s Atom chips. [...]
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