NVIDIA Ion, The Next-Generation

NVIDIA has just made its next-generation Ion graphics processors official. You might have heard that Ion-Next was slower than the first generation Ion… well this is wrong. In fact, there are two versions of Ion, a 16-core and an 8-core versions. Obviously, rumored performance had been benchmarked on the 8-core version. Anyhow, the next-generation Ion still has the same quality than the first one: it bring high performance graphics to Netbooks, without battery life compromise when compared to a plain vanilla Netbook with Intel integrated graphics. NVIDIA is talking about 15x graphics performance against Intel’s graphics chips (GMA 945GSE, Intel’s GMA 3150) or 7x faster in video conversion (GPU-Badaboom versus CPU-iTunes).

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