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NVIDIA Ion - Intel Atom Done Right?

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: NVIDIA Ion Reference PC
Date: Fri, Mar 20, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Spore


Spore

Spore is a multi-genre massive single-player online metaverse video game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay and procedural generation. The game was released for PC and Macintosh (using emulation) computers in September 2008.

Spore

Default game settings were used and can be seen in the screen shot above.

Spore Benchmark Results

Results: This is the first time that I have benchmarked the game Spore and I used FRAPS to see how the game played on the NVIDIA Ion reference platform.  The results showed that at 1024x768 with low image quality settings that the platform was able to play the game just fine. Even at a higher resolution like 1280x1024 the platform was able to play this popular game.

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Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA Ion - Intel Atom Done Right?
Page 2 - A Closer Look at Ion
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Sisoftware Sandra 2009 SP3
Page 5 - PCMark Vantage
Page 6 - 3DMark Vantage and 3DMark06
Page 7 - Spore
Page 8 - Left 4 Dead
Page 9 - World in Conflict
Page 10 - Browser Benchmarking
Page 11 - HD Video Playback and Badaboom
Page 12 - Power Consumption and Conclusions