ASUS Unveils Zenbook UX32VS with Nvidia Graphichs and FullHD Display

We all remember how Nvidia bragged about three hundred Ivy Bridge and Kepler design wins. Well, the first Ivy Bridge notebook on sale was using an AMD GPU and many of Nvidia’s Ivy Bridge design wins are, in fact, Fermi-based, not Kepler. Asus reportedly briefly unveiled some small details about its new Zenbook UX32VD.

The new MacBook Air competitor form Asustek comes with a very high quality FullHD screen using an IPS display panel. To power that high resolution display, Asus decided to include Nvidia’s Fermi-based 40 nm graphics processing unit (GPU), called GT 620.

This part is based on Nvidia’s Fermi GF116 GPU that comes with just 48 CUDA cores, 8 TMUs and 4 ROPs. The GPU has an 810 MHz frequency, but considering this is a mobile chip, the frequency might be lower than the desktop part.

Just like all Fermi GPUs, the GT620 has a share frequency of 1620 MHz, double the frequency of the rest of the GPU. The effective memory clock can be up to 3592 MHz, but again this is a laptop part, so the rated frequency might be lower.

We don’t yet know what the memory configuration will be, whether 512 or 1024 MB on a measly 64 Bit BUS. The new Asus Zenbook UX32VS will come with hybrid HDDs instead of the expected SSDs and this might be the reason that the UX32VS is thicker than the UX31A.

The marketing cardboard next to the pictured sample says “7mm HDD up to 500G” so we believe they’re talking about WD’s new slim HDDs. There is also a "24G SSD for caching" mentioned. That is likely the NAND part of a hybrid drive or simply a mSATA SSD. There is no information on the price available yet.

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