Two months ago NVIDIA unveiled its next-generation ION GPU. Sporting either 8 or 16 SPs (or CUDA cores if you bleed green), the next-generation ION is strictly a GPU while its predecessor was a chipset with integrated graphics.

Designed to be paired with Intel’s Pine Trail Atom platform, we should start seeing some next-gen ION machines pop up over the coming months. As we understand it, drivers aren’t final and products aren’t ready for retail sale but imagine our surprise when we found this on our doorstep this morning:

That’s Zotac’s HD-ID11-U, a nettop based on the dual-core Atom D510 and NVIDIA’s 16 core next-gen ION with 512MB DDR3 frame buffer. The system shipped entirely barebones so we’ll be suiting it up and running whatever preliminary tests we can on it over the weekend. As I mentioned earlier, drivers aren’t final so don’t expect a full rundown anytime soon.

The system sports 6 USB ports, HDMI & DVI out, eSATA, Ethernet, optical audio out, headphone/mic jacks and a SD card reader. Internally you’ve got one 2.5″ bay for a SATA HDD (or SSD) and a single SO-DIMM slot for DDR2.

Here are the general details for this product:

General details
• New ZOTAC ZBOX HD-ID11
• Next-Generation NVIDIA® ION™ platform
• NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology
• NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology
• Intel® NM10 Express chipset
• Intel® HyperThreading technology
• ZOTAC ZBOX HD-ID11
o Intel® Atom™ D510
o Dual-core
o 1.66 GHz (667 MHz front-side bus)
• Tool-less case design
• VESA monitor mount included
• HDMI (1080p) & Dual-link DVI outputs
• HDMI 1.3a compliant
• xvYCC Color and Deep Color support
• HDCP compliant
• Microsoft® DirectCompute ready
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 decode acceleration
• OpenCL compliant
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Onboard 802.11n WiFi
• Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 with Shader Model 4.1 compatible
• OpenGL® 3.2 compatible
• Microsoft® Windows® 7 with premium Aero® user interface ready

Product Name ZBOX HD-ID11
CPU Intel® Atom™ D510
(1.66 GHz, dual-core)
GPU Next-Generation NVIDIA® ION™
Video Memory Dedicated 512MB DDR3
Display Options HDMI (w/audio) and Dual-link DVI
Memory 1 x 200-pin DDR2 SODIMM slots
Hard Disk 1 x 2.5-inch
Memory Card Reader 6-in-1 (SD/SDHC/MMC/MS/MS Pro/xD)
SATA eSATA 3.0Gbp/s
Ethernet 10/100/1000Mbps
WiFi 802.11n integrated
USB 2.0 6 (4 on back panel, 1 on front panel, 1 on top panel)
Audio Onboard analog stereo high-definition audio
7.1-Channel LPCM digital audio (HDMI)
Optical Digital S/PDIF audio output
DirectX® Support DirectX® 10.1 with Shader Model 4.1
Other Features OpenCL compliant, OpenGL® 3.2 compatible, NVIDIA® PhysX® ready, NVIDIA® CUDA™ ready, NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology
HDCP: Yes
Software Features nView® Multi-Display
Windows® 7 Capability Windows® 7 with Aero® user interface and DirectCompute compatible

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