The benchmarking was done by Netbook News while at MWC, who managed to run a 3DMark03 graphics benchmark test during their hands-on time. The resulting score of 3,049 is lower than some Ion LE netbooks achieve; the Samsung N510, for example, scores a 3593.
There are possible explanations, of course, and we won’t know for sure how the Ion 2 stacks up until we’re able to test a production-ready unit. As Netbook Choice points out, it’s possible that Acer and Nvidia purposefully hamstrung the machine to keep it stable during demonstrations. Then again, it’s also possible that Nvidia has had a difficult time working with the Aspire One 532G’s Pine Trail processor. Let’s hope it’s the former: the last thing netbooks need is even more limited graphics capabilities.
[Netbook News via Netbook Choice]
matt
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM“the last thing netbooks need is even more limited graphics capabilities.”
is it? from what I heard ion was a bit overkill and used alot of power? it is possible ion 2 is based on mobile tech (tegra?) to use less power.
they just need to be able to run the net after all.
as long as it can run web vidoes and flash, I don’t see the problem. I’ll take longer battery life. wanna play games? buy the alienware 11″
Stefan
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 4:50 PMagreed, totally, the M11x is a netbook sized pc with superior graphics for more money, but if you want to play games then thats what you pay for it.