Introducing Next-Generation NVIDIA ION

Next-generation NVIDIA ION netbooks fuse great performance and great battery life with NVIDIA Optimus technology. Only ION netbooks let you experience full YouTube HD video, play popular PC games like World of Warcraft, and accelerate video and photo apps on the GPU. NVIDIA ION packs a premium graphics punch with no compromise on battery life.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• NVIDIA
• ION
• Netbooks
• Atom
• Nettops
• GPU
• Optimus

[allofyousuckla]

@marcelfast1 720p? They are talking about 1080p which atom graphic machine cannot run at all.

[allofyousuckla]

@jivevd Are you talking about 720p? Because they show it in 1080p aka 1920x1080 screen resolution video playback.

[allofyousuckla]

@nopochoclos Really because without ion most netbook does not play full hd at all. Since intel gpu limitation is

depention on Cpu load. With ion let the graphic processor do the work. I have the ion and really amazed what they can offer. At least some old netbook owner can trade their old netbook since the old one has crappy shitty performance compare to this ion.

[andrew1421l]

@jivevd 1080p? I can barely get 720p to run smooth.

[nopochoclos]

I am a geek and i have 18 years working on tech i work and i see a lot of netbooks and notebooks playing FULL HD without ION, this is called programmed obsolescence, they convence you to buy a better products that you dont need realy.

The best age is 8 Bits,almost similar soft running in differents machines, like MSX Commodore Atari for years until you need to buy another computer, but PC era is a Shi....

[jivevd]

why my netbook playing hd in youtube is fast without nvidia ion?????

[marcelfast1]

i have atom , 2gb ddr3, n 550, GMA 3150 but is not slow in windows i can see videos hd easily (720)

but playing it is not the best

nvidia is better, but fake video against intel GMA

[reloadro]

To end my rant , i hope some system integrators manage to slap in the 16 cuda core ion 2 in their netbooks instead of the 8 core one.I couldn't really care much about power consumption since i would use that netbook almost always plugged in .That being said i'm waiting on Ion 3 with at least 128-bit memory bandwith and direct x 11 support.

[reloadro]

Hey Nvidia , what's up with intel screwing you over that DMI bus access. Is it a big issue if the ion chip is interfaced through the pciex1 / x16 lanes ? Sure the bandwith might be slower , but if netbook integrators make sure that all the lanes's bandwith is dedicated to the ION chip, it shouldn't be a problem.You could even sue the bastards over this. It seems they haven't learnt their lesson since the EU record fine.

[lllBADMANlll]

@EchelonLeader Do u mean next gen is just an overclock 9400M 0r a more powerful chip like 9600 or something?