Comments on: Nvidia Ion opens the doors for ultra mobile gaming.

By: Yasin

Yasin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:41:49 +0000

i got an Acer Ferrari One 200. Has 1.2Ghz AMD Dual Core (athlon x2 L310) processor, 4gb DDR2 RAM (@800Mhz), and 250GB SATA hard drive. Has M780G chipset with ATI HD3200 graphics. All for £450. Now tell me which Nvidia Ion laptop will have those kind of specs…?

By: maxus

maxus — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:57:32 +0000

Nice, hope this finds its way into a umpc and not only into netbooks

By: fury

fury — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:29:22 +0000

this 9400 is the intergrated chip which is slower then the 9400 graphic card..

from what i can see the 9400 chipset that nvidia bring out is similar in performance or weaker then the 9300M GS in 3d

their 3d core run at similar clock speed and with similar amount of shader..
but the 9300m gs in n10j has it’s own 256mb memory

while the 9400 that nvidia is talking about is shared memory

By: tsog

tsog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:27:37 +0000

yep, the GPU is a 9400, which should be better than the 9300GS on the asus N10
http://www.trustedreviews.com/pcs/news/2008/12/17/nVidia-Ion-Platform-Detailed/p1

By: DavidC1

DavidC1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:39:39 +0000

According to the Japanese PCWatch article, the 945G on the Netbook is 4W and the Ion chipset from Nvidia is 14W.

By: DavidC1

DavidC1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:21:37 +0000

Word of caution, all-in-one doesn’t necessarily mean the chipset will be power efficient. They mention similar battery life to 945G using Netbooks. The 945G used in Netbooks don’t use too much power but its a lot compared to the Atom.

The Nvidia chipset motherboards in desktops that consumed the most power used all-in-one chipsets.

By: TareX

TareX — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:47:58 +0000

Tegra and Ion. Looks like I should buy some NVidia shares before 09…

By: REMF

REMF — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:05:37 +0000

been banging on about netbooks being useless in the future unless they got GPGPU support, glad it has happened at last.

according to anandtech it has the same clocks as the regular 9400M chips.

but then it is an all in one asic manufactured at .065u, so its going to be powere efficient compared to diamondville even with all that GPU power.

By: Doubery

Doubery — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:29:13 +0000

whats the power consumption like?

By: Chippy

Chippy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:08:15 +0000

something similar to a high-end card of 5 years ago perhaps?

By: tsog

tsog — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:02:27 +0000

10x graphics? that’s about 900 3dMarks06
i think it’s an underclocked 9400M