Nvidia ION performance?

I know the HP mini 311 1000NR has had the ION LE, but it's only 128mb instead of 256. Currently the EEE PC 1201N, Lenovo S12, and Samsung N510 have the true ION 256mb, based of the 9400m.

Does anyone know how this performs gaming wise? Does it perform as well as the 9400m or does it's Atom N270 processor still hinder it.

Thanks!

 

I had an Acer nettop with an INTEL 230 same performance as the N270 and a 9400m

The 9400m is held back by the 230/270, you really need a dual core, I could feel the CPU struggling to power the 9400m.

 

Bah, I currently have a Studio 14z (9400m, dual-core) and it plays games like TF2, L4D, and COD4, pretty smooth with moderate resolution and medium graphics. Guessing I won't expect that sort of gameplay with the N270 and ION then...Bummer, was hoping for a sub-4lbs gaming netbook.

 

I played BF2 on an ION at medium with AAx2 and it run quite well , just the odd slowdown when a lot of vehicles or movement happens, but i blame the CPU , I would loved to have had a INTEL SU9400 CPU with an 9400m.

 

Do you really need 256MB RAM for the GPU? I would think with the limitations 128MB is all you would need anyhow. Anyone know if Dell is going to be offering an ION based netbook?

 

tomorrow when I get some time. I will test my 9400m and bring it threw hell and post results.

anything you want me to run? I already have a list at
1920*1200
1920*1080
1680*1050
1440*900
1280*1024
1280*800
and I don't need to go any lower then that.

 

I played with an Atom/Ion PC for a bit (Acer Aspire Revo) and it's use as a gaming platform is very limited. While it did have COD 4 installed and it ran ok. you do have to keep it at lower res and details. I have tried EVE on it and while it ran it was pretty laggy. That said, it did everything else pretty well, even Blu-ray playback was perfectly smooth. The basic problem is that the CPU is weak. it is so week that online streaming like Hulu (which is solely CPU based rendering) does not work well at all.

 

i tried to run dmc4 but it just froze.

 

@dondadah88:

To be honest, that's tons better than my Acer Aspire 1410 with an ~ 600 score for 3DMark06.

What netbook/notebook is that anyways?

 

the one in my sig. it's the cpu that made it alot higher. that's why.

 

M17x? That has a 9400m?

 

yes. it's hybrid. you can turn it on and off.

 

My nettop specs:
ASRock Ion 330
Intel Atom 330 HT @ OCed to 1,8 GHz
Nvidia Geforce 9400m at 512mb
4096mb DDR2 ram (3gb for system, 512 for gpu and 512mb wasted. )

When i was running Windows 7 on it i had no problems running casual gaming on it, and the only problem was WoW, since it requires a cpu with more power than a Atom. xD

But i heard Asus is making a new netbook with the dual core Atom 330 paired with the 9400m gpu.
Bet that would run games better than the single core Atom 270 / 280.

 

All Atom 330 are dual-cored...literally just two N270 chips on one platform. Does your nettop also only get 2.5-3 hours with a 6-cell?

That's a shame the 330 doesn't run games better with the 9400m...

 

A 330 is more like two atom 230 as it is 64bit compatible, the N270 is not.

http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=36331,35641,35635,