14 DAY TRIAL // There's been quite a lot of talk about the fact that the NVIDIA GT540M, the first mobile GPU pertaining to the GPU manufacturer's new 500 Series, is going to get an official CES unveiling and plenty of new products built around it, and now, we've decided to add a little something to the rumor wheel, namely the fact that the graphics unit will find its way into a yet-unreleased Asus notebook built on Intel's Sandy Bridge platform.
It so happens that one of our sources in the industry has provided us with a very interesting GPUZ screenshot, depicting the NVIDIA GT 540M discrete graphics card running on an Asus notebook and packing 1GB of DDR3 memory.
And while the GPUz application doesn't provide any information on the actual portable system on which the GPU is installed, our source (for whose reliability we can vow) told us that the Asus notebook in question, does, in fact, also feature one of the mobile Sandy Bridge CPUs.
As some of you might remember (and the GPUz screenshot confirms), the next-gen mobile GPU from NVIDIA is built using a 40nm process and will feature 96 processor cores, as well as an 128-bit memory interface, while the graphics clock reaches 672 Mhz.
The processor clock has also been improved, reaching 1344 Mhz, while the card also delivers up to 1.5GB of memory, reaching up to 900 Mhz clock frequency and, depending on the specific notebook model and OEM preferences, featuring either GDDR5 or SDDR3 memory.
Of course, we're now eagerly waiting to actually seeing the respective notebook from Asus make an official appearance on the market, and we're pretty sure that we won't have to wait for too long, given the fact that, after all, the Sandy Bridge platform from Intel will go official in just a couple of weeks' time.