Nvidia Ion Reviewed
Tom's hardware has done a review of the NVidia Ion reference system, comparing it to an Atom 230 board made by Intel, the D945GCLF.
The Geforce 9400M in the NVidia Ion system performed very well, taking a lot of the strain of the Atom processor. It was able to play back Blu-ray movies at 1080p and even play games such as Spore and Call of Duty at an acceptable frame rate. Improvement wasn't just limited to graphics heavy applications, a test, copying files over USB and Ethernet showed significant improvement.
The power issue was less clear cut, but as was pointed out the two systems were not comparing like with like. The NVidia System had it's own power supply so the results were not a true comparison. They concluded that there was a power saving of between 19% and 35%, depending if the system was idle or running at full load.
Go and check out the full review and see for yourself.
The Geforce 9400M in the NVidia Ion system performed very well, taking a lot of the strain of the Atom processor. It was able to play back Blu-ray movies at 1080p and even play games such as Spore and Call of Duty at an acceptable frame rate. Improvement wasn't just limited to graphics heavy applications, a test, copying files over USB and Ethernet showed significant improvement.
The power issue was less clear cut, but as was pointed out the two systems were not comparing like with like. The NVidia System had it's own power supply so the results were not a true comparison. They concluded that there was a power saving of between 19% and 35%, depending if the system was idle or running at full load.
Go and check out the full review and see for yourself.
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