The much anticipated Nvidia ION 2 graphics chip has been benchmarked by netbooknews on an Acer Aspire One 532g. The 3DMark03 test resulted in a 3049, while a Samsung N150 with the original ION LE scored a 3513. Some of the differences in scoring could be due to the different netbooks used and a few other factors, but bottom line is it looks like the ION 2 will be slower than the ION 1.
Of course the big deal about the ION 2 is not the speed but the battery life. The ION 2 will have switchable Optimus graphics technology which uses the integrated Intel GMA 3150 graphics until it needs a boost at which point it will switch over to a discrete GPU.
It looks like they went with the “Pinetrail” upgrade method of battery life over performance, but even a 3DMark03 score of “only” 3049 isn’t too bad compared to other netbooks average scores of around 100 or so.
Here is the test:
