Comments on: Nvidia Goes Netbooks: Releases Ion Graphics Platform for Intel Atom http://blog.laptopmag.com/nvidia-goes-netbooks-releases-ion-graphics-platform-for-intel-atom News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:25:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sc http://blog.laptopmag.com/nvidia-goes-netbooks-releases-ion-graphics-platform-for-intel-atom/comment-page-1#comment-14948 sc Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:27:44 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=8153#comment-14948 This is one segment that has not benefitted from competition driving performance of Intel's boards. I hope Intel sees the benefits of such a collaboration as a means to sell more processors, as opposed to competition for its boards. Like the recent Apple switch from Intel boards to utilizing NVIDIA's 9400M on the MacBooks, I think this may be the time for performance gains due to GPGPU (versus the clock speed gains or the traditional multicore gains). It's not to say that Intel integrated graphics cannot be accessed via OpenCL, but NVIDIA appears to be leaps ahead in this regard. While massive performance gains are unlikely in any scenario with netbooks, the efficiency of Ion may be a huge determining factor for consumers. This is one segment that has not benefitted from competition driving performance of Intel’s boards. I hope Intel sees the benefits of such a collaboration as a means to sell more processors, as opposed to competition for its boards. Like the recent Apple switch from Intel boards to utilizing NVIDIA’s 9400M on the MacBooks, I think this may be the time for performance gains due to GPGPU (versus the clock speed gains or the traditional multicore gains). It’s not to say that Intel integrated graphics cannot be accessed via OpenCL, but NVIDIA appears to be leaps ahead in this regard.

While massive performance gains are unlikely in any scenario with netbooks, the efficiency of Ion may be a huge determining factor for consumers.

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