Nvidia Ion

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Nvidia Ion
Manufacturer Nvidia

Nvidia Ion was a product line of Nvidia Corporation intended for motherboards of low-cost portable computers. It used graphics processing units and chipsets intended for small products.

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First generation Nvidia Ion products included a MCP79MX chipset with integrated GeForce 9400M G GPU, DDR3-1066 or DDR2-800 SDRAM, and the Intel Atom processor. The original reference platform was based on a Pico-ITXe motherboard designed for netbook and nettop devices. In February 2009, Microsoft certified the Ion-based platform for Windows Vista. [1] The small form factor Ion-based computers were released in mid-2009.[ citation needed ]

Ion GPUs are DirectX 10.0 and OpenGL 3.3 compliant. They also support CUDA and OpenCL. They can play 1080p H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1 video using VDPAU or PureVideo HD. [2] ION-LE–based systems shared the same basic hardware as ION but lack Vista and DirectX 10 support. [3]

Nvidia announced that it would release the Ion platform for the VIA Nano processor some time in Q4 2009., [4] however no products materialized.

The second generation Ion is no longer a full chipset, it instead is an additional graphics card based on a downclocked GT218 core with 512MB of dedicated memory, and PCIe 1x connection to the Intel chipset. It supports Nvidia Optimus for power saving. [5]

Specifications

Ion (first-generation Nvidia Ion)

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Zotac motherboard
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Rear connectors of Zotac motherboard

Ion 2 (next-generation Nvidia Ion)

Motherboards

Desktop systems

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An ASRock ION 330HT-BD

Netbook systems

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Acer Aspire One 532G

Discontinued Windows support

Nvidia has ceased Windows driver support for Nvidia ION series on April 1, 2016. [30]

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