3/12/2012 09:37:00 PM
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Besides the Aspire V3 and V5 notebooks that were presented at this year’s CeBIT fair, Acer’s 2012 Aspire range will also include the VA40 series of 14-inch laptops sporting Intel 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs and next-gen Nvidia Kepler discrete graphics.
Such a notebook has recently entered into the possession of Chinese website Expreview, which made sure to snap a few screenshots of its configuration before sending it back.
These have revealed that the Aspire VA40 laptop in question is powered by an Intel Core i7-3612QM processor, which is one of the chipmaker’s most powerful mobile CPUs, since it packs four computing cores with Hyper-Threading support.
The CPU has a base frequency of 2.1GHz, but thanks to Intel’s Turbo Boost technology can reach speeds as high as 3.1GHz when a single core is active.
In the Aspire VA40 notebook detailed by Expreview, the Intel Ivy Bridge processor was paired together with a GeForce GT 640M discrete graphics card.
Based on the GK107 core, Nvidia’s Kepler GPU allegedly features 384 CUDA cores, 16 ROP units and a 128-bit bus, which in Acer’s creation is linked to 2GB of DDR3 memory.
According to GPU-Z, the memory works at 900MHz, while the GK107 graphics processor has a base frequency of 405MHz.
The GPU utilizes the PCI Express 3.0 interface and is also compatible with Nvidia’s Optimus technology.
This automatically switches between the CPU integrated Intel HD 4000 GPU and the GeForce GT 640M discrete graphics core depending on the task run.
The Acer notebook also includes 6GB of system memory and runs the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.
No information regarding the release date or the price of the Aspire VA40 have been provided, but we expect this to be announced at the end of April, right after Intel makes its first Ivy Bridge CPUs official.
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