Inno3D ION
6. Tests - Graphics
The Inno3D ION iChiLL Edition motherboard has a 65nm GeForce 9300 processor onboard The GPU features 4 ROPs, 16 unified Shaders and up to 256MB of shared DDR2 memory. The GPU clock runs at 450MHz, the memory at 800MHz and the Shaders at 1100MHz.
As we can see there is support for DirectX 10/SM 4.0 and CUDA as well. For our tests we used the latest Nvidia Forceware 195.62 WHQL drivers for the Windows 7 x64 operating system:
The GPU's temperature is rather high at 52 degrees Celsius:
Some quick tests with Sisoft Sandra software showed that the Nvidia ION with 256MB DDR2 onboard is faster than the integrated 8400GS series:
Compared with other graphic cards, the embedded ION GPU seems to perform better than an ATI 3300 and GeForce 8400/8500 solution, according to Sisoft Sandra . However, ION's performance cannot be compared with what you will get from a dedicated graphics card, like the 9400/9500GT series.
Let's see how the Inno3D ION performs in real gaming. As you can see selecting the proper resolution and medium-low visual quality settings will allow you to play the StreetFighter IV game decently:
StreetFighter IV Benchmark (medium quality settings-noAA-noAF) |
1.60GHz CPU |
800x600 |
33.33 FPS |
1280x1024 |
20.27 FPS |