Next-gen Ion netbook accelerates IE9 graphics

Nvidia rarely misses a chance to show its graphics products giving their Intel rivals a good whupping. Just yesterday on the official nTersect blog, Nvidia posted a video of the Internet Explorer 9 platform preview running on both a regular netbook and an upcoming Asus netbook with a next-generation Ion GPU.

The demo includes three activities from Microsoft's IE9 Platform Demos page: zooming in and out in Bing Maps, rendering flying 3D images, and playing an HTML 5 Asteroids clone with SVG graphics. And, of course, the IE9 platform preview has GPU acceleration. You can guess how the two machines fared...

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