HD Video Comparison: Nvidia ION is better than Broadcom HD
I've done some videos of the Nvidia ION chipset in action where I showed the game Crysis being played and a before and after of Adobe Flash 10.1; however, I didn't have a chance to compare the performance between the Nvidia ION chipset and that of the only other competitor for HD video - the Broadcom HD Video Accelerator. The folks at Laptopmag did do some tests though and the results are listed above.
In all three file tests which include Avatar as a Quicktime MPEG4 file and Magic of Flight as WMV file the Nvidia ION powered Inspirion 10 outperformed the exact same netbook equipped with the Broadcom HD video accelerator instead of Nvidia ION. This is the best comparison test I've seen yet that shows the performance difference between the two, so if you're trying to decide between two netbooks for HD playback I would recommend going with Nvidia ION.
Here are a few netbooks that currently use Nvidia ION:
HP Mini 311
Lenovo Ideapad S12 ION (See my review)
ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1201N
Tagged: Broadcom HD, Nvidia ION
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