NVidia ION
From Samsung Wiki
The nVidia ION platform matches up the Intel Atom processor with nVidia graphics to produce a small form factor ideal for use is notebooks and other low cost light weight PCs.
The advantages of the ION platform are:
- Premium DirectX 10 graphics with advanced digital display connectivity
- Full 1080p HD video with true-fidelity 7.1 audio
- NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology to accelerate the most demanding applications, vastly improving your PC’s ability to work with visual *content such as video encoding
- Premium Windows experience with Windows Vista and Windows 7
The ION platform first featured in the Samsung Netbook range in the Samsung N510.
Ion Specifications
- Memory Interface: DDR3-1066 or DDR2-800
- DirectX 10 Support: Yes
- Graphics Cores: 16
- Core/Shader Clocks: 450/1100 MHz
- Texture Fill Rate: 3.6 Billion/second
- Maximum Anti-Aliasing (AA) Sample Rate: 16x
- RAMDACs: 300MHz
- Maximum High-Dynamic Range (HDR) Precision: 128-bit
- Maximum Analog Resolution: 2048 x 1536
- Maximum Digital Resolution: 2560 x 1600
- NVIDIA PureVideo® HD: Yes with Full HD decode (1080i/p)
- Display Options: HDMI, Dual-link DVI, DP, or VGA (any 2)
- PCI-Express 2.0: 20 lanes (1×16 and 4×1)
- SATA Drives: 6
- SATA Speed: 3Gb/s
- RAID: 0,1
- Networking: BASE-10/100/1000
- USB Ports: 12/2C
- PCI Slots: 5
- Audio: HDA (Azalia)
