Zotac Launches GT 630 Zone Edition, GT 640 GDDR5 GPUs

Japanese site 4Gamer.net has reviewed Zotac’s upcoming GT 630 Zone Edition and GT 640 GDDR5 GPUs and revealed that they will not be powered by Nvidia’s GK108 or GK107 “Fermi” core, but instead will utilize the GK208 “Kepler” core.

The GT 630 Zone Edition has a length of 148 mm and like other Zone Edition GPUs, features a fanless, passive cooler that is just 10 mm shy of meeting the low profile specification. Though the GT 640 GDDR5 also measures 148 mm in length, it includes a 2 slot design with a single 50 mm cooling fan. With regards to outputs, both graphics cards feature a single Dual-Link DVI-D port, one HDMI connector and analog RGB via a 15-pin D-Sub port.

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Header Cell - Column 0 GT 630 “Fermi”Zotac GT 630 ZEGT 640 DDR3Zotac GT 640 GDDR5
CoreGK108GK208-301GK107-301GK208-301
CUDA Cores9638496384
ROPs48148
Base Clock810 MHz902 MHz900 MHz1046 MHz
Boost Clock1620 MHz1804 MHz--
Memory Clock1.8 Gb/s1.8 Gb/s1.8 Gb/s5.0 Gb/s
Memory1024 MB2048 MB2024 MB2048 MB
Memory Interface128-bit DDR3 / GDDR564-bit GDDR5128-bit DDR364-bit GDDR5
Bandwidth28.8 Gb/s (DDR3)51.2 Gb/s (GDDR5)14.4 Gb/s28.5 Gb/s40.0 Gb/s
TDP65 W25 W25 W49 W
Min. Power Requirement300 W300 W300 W300 W

The Zotac GT 630 Zone Edition and GT 640 will initially be on sale in Japan with a sticker price of ¥ 9,000 ($90) and ¥ 13,500 ($136), respectively. Further information and benchmarks are available at the source link and at Nvidia Japan’s website.

  • Larry Bob
    I call BS. We haven't gotten into GK2xx numbering yet at all.
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  • allenpan
    lol,,, must be BS when it is on wiki and NVidia office website
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  • 06yfz450ridr
    that much for those cards yea right
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  • smeezekitty
    AMD obviously has better offerings in this price range. As far as both performance for the price and energy consumption.

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  • de5_Roy
    how is a GK108 asic called Fermi?
    edit: gt630 is a fermi gpu iirc, not kepler. the asic codenames should be double-checked.
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  • SteelCity1981
    64bit GDD5? ouch
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  • DryCreamer
    I got an Asus GT640 with the GK208 64-bit DDR5 on order, should arrive tomorrow! I know they are realy :) hopefully I will be posting a review on here.

    Dry
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  • HKILLER
    why would you buy a GT 640 for 136$ when GeForce GTX 650 2GB Superclocked is only 140$ and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB is only 150$ (they had discounts just recently...) and if you can pay a bit more get GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST Superclocked for 170$...it's a very nice card for that price and it's mid range...it will do the job on medium for most games with atleast 30FPS...
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  • tabascosauz
    This is retarded. My OEM GT 640 GDDR5, the original one, which was a GTX 650 with lower clocks, trashes this new GT 640 DDR5. Half the bandwidth?? Are you kidding me? Who would buy this over a GTX 650? I just gained a whole lot of gratitude for my GT 640 GDDR5 and how much better it is compared to this.
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