Monday, July 16th 2012
Point of View Launches the GeForce GT 640 TGT Ultra Charged Graphics Card
Point of View the leading European manufacturer of an exclusive range NVIDIA based 3D processor boards, advanced netbooks as well as fancy 7" and 10" Tegra tablet computers and additional enthusiast PC products, announces today the POV/TGT GeForce GT 640 Ultra Charged 3D processor board running at 1006 MHz. The POV/TGT GeForce GT 640 Ultra Charged is the first GT 640 board on the market significantly overclocking both, the core clock (1006 MHz vs. 901 MHz) and the memory clock.
The POV/TGT GeForce GT 640 Ultra Charged features an enhanced design to also boost the memory clock from the 1782 MHz reference setting to 2020 MHz. The POV/TGT GeForce GT 640 Ultra Charged is immediately available at an expected street price of around € 115 incl. VAT.
The POV/TGT GeForce GT 640 Ultra Charged features an enhanced design to also boost the memory clock from the 1782 MHz reference setting to 2020 MHz. The POV/TGT GeForce GT 640 Ultra Charged is immediately available at an expected street price of around € 115 incl. VAT.
11 Comments on Point of View Launches the GeForce GT 640 TGT Ultra Charged Graphics Card
For that price, what's keeping me from buying an HD 7770 that would completely run over this card...?
nVidia/PoV, get real...
DDR5 helps quite a lot for this cards, try to find a DDR3 GTS 450 or HD5700 review and you will see...
There was a review on a forum on the gddr5 version of gt 640 i think it was a mobile part and even that one was still weaker than a 7750.
I recall one or two AIB’s equipping GTS 450’s with 2GB of DDR3, but even still the GTS450 was so bad it hardly was competition for the 5750 (which I don't recall offer DDR3), and Nvidia showed with a GTS450 like 11 months later? The GT440 wasn’t as good as the GT240DDR5, which was like the last great low-end Nvidia has offered.
This card is like those 9600 that Nvidia dump with 128-Bit and 48 shaders; those got the nicknamed - POS! :laugh:
HIS H675FS1G Radeon HD 6750 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI E...
not as bad as a GTS 450 with 64bit 1000MHz (500) ram I've seen.
keep in mind that the mobile GK107 with DDR5 is clocked lower than a desktop part (and normally with slower CPUs), and even so the results look close to a 7750
www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Asus-G55VW-S1020V-Notebook.74851.0.htmlthe GTS 450 DDR5 was decent against the 5750, again, originally there was no DDR3 version, but later many were released...
but yes, it was different from what's going on with the GK107, the reference GTS 450 was decent, and later partners released slower/cheaper cards with slow memory,
for GK107 it seems nvidia is dictating the use of DDR3 (like they did with the GT 430 and later released the GT 440 with DDR5 as an option and higher clocks? but I think that GPU was to slow compared to the GK107 to be so limited by memory bandwidth), so the only reason I can see is to give some space to sell old cards (GTS 450, GTX 550 Ti, GTX 460) to later allow the use of DDR5, AND maybe it's selling so well on the mobiles (with higher price and profit) that they don't want a huge volume on the desktops as a $100 card yet (if it was faster, using DDR5 demand would be higher, but they couldn't really ask for much more than $100 since there are so many options at this price range)?... but that's just a guess.
gf108 looked to slow in some aspects (4ROPs?), but if you look at the GT 240, it wasn't always faster than the 9600GT either,
anyway, I would never recommend buying the GT 640, but a DDR5 card with the GK107 will probably work well (IF they don't price it as badly as the GT 640)