Zotac GTX680 AMP! Edition Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 8th May 2012 | Source: Zotac | Price: |
Introduction
These are great times to be someone who loves hardware. With the release of the HD7970 AMD stole the Fastest Single GPU Crown from nVidia, who swiftly responded with the GTX680 and now, much like the UK Government, we have both companies sharing the title.
On test today is our first of the factory overclocked variants of the GTX680, the Zotac GTX680 AMP! Edition.
As many of you know from previous versions, the AMP! has always been one of the better hardcore cards around, with an excellent cooler and usually a pretty decent overclock too. So of course we have to see if the GTX680 keeps up this trend.
Technical Specifications
The first thing you notice is the 105MHz overclock on the GPU, and effective 600MHz overclock on the GDDR5. Considering that the GTX680 is no slouch anyway, this should really kick the performance up another notch.
| Interface | PCI Express 3.0* x16 (Compatible with 1.1) |
| Chipset Manufacturer | NVIDIA® |
| GPU | GeForce® GTX 680 |
| Core clock | 1111 MHz (base) - 1176 MHz (boost) |
| Stream Processors | 1536 |
| Shader Clock | 2222 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 6608 MHz |
| Memory Size | 2 GB |
| Memory Interface | 256-bit |
| Memory Type | DDR5 |
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL® 4.2 |
| DVI | 2 (DVI-I & DVI-D) |
| VGA | (With included DVI-to-VGA adapter) |
| Tuner | None |
| RAMDAC | 400 MHz |
| Max Resolution | 2560 x 1600 |
| RoHS Compliant | Yes |
| SLI Supported | Yes (3-way) |
| Cooler | AMP! Dual-Fan |
| Dual-Link DVI Supported | Yes |
| Windows® 7 Capability | Certified for Windows® 7 with DirectCompute support |
| Game Bundle | ZOTAC Assassin’s Creed® 3-Game Pack |
Most Recent Comments
Love the look of this Zotac card... one of the sexier looking GPUs I've seen so far this round.
I like the heat pipes and the orange fans on this card, performance ain't to shabby either.
Still can't wrap my head around some of the stock, stock oc, AMD and NVIDIA, amp, amp oc results tho. The comparisons just don't make sense.
Cheery Oh Tom.
Maybe with silver heatpipes... Looks a lot like a ghetto mod to me. But the temps are nice
Nice review.
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Originally Posted by Anthrax27
Damn even the GTX 670 beats the GTX 580 |
Just read a review on another site and they said it's going to be about £300, which is confusing, but true. Thats around £100 cheaper than the 680 yet it's a faster card
£320 from Aria
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Compo...roductId=49839
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Originally Posted by SieB
The 670 overclocked beats the 680 Just read a review on another site and they said it's going to be about £300, which is confusing, but true. Thats around £100 cheaper than the 680 yet it's a faster card £320 from Aria http://www.aria.co.u...productId=49839 |
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