Zotac recently unleashed a monstrous new GTX 980Ti AMP! Extreme graphics card featuring a giant triple slot cooler and a very respectable factory overclock.
Specifically, the Zotac ZT-90505-10P card is a custom card with a factory overclocked NVIDIA GTX 980Ti GPU and GDDR5 memory. The card is a triple slot design that uses a dual fin stack IceStorm heatsink with three 90mm temperature controlled EKO fans. The cooler wraps the fans and HSF in a shroud and also uses a backplate on the bottom of the card. The card is powered by two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors and display outputs include three DisplayPort, one HDMI, and one DL-DVI.
Zotac was able to push the Maxwell GPU with its 2,816 CUDA cores to 1,253 MHz base and 1,355 MHz boost. Further, the 6GB GDDR5 memory also has a factory overclock of 7,220 MHz. These clockspeeds are a decent bump over the reference speeds of 1,000 MHz GPU base, 1,076 MHz GPU boost, and 7,012 MHz memory.
We’ll have to wait for reviews to know for sure, but on paper this card looks to be a nice card that should run fast and cool thanks to that triple fan cooler. The ZT-90505-10P will be available shortly with an MSRP of $700 and a 2 year warranty.
Definitely not a bad price compared to other GTX 980Ti cards on the market.
These is a card available on
These is a card available on Amazon, but the seller appears to be highly inflating the price at almost $900…
Not a fan of these highly
Not a fan of these highly overclocked manufacturer cards. Have had experiences in the past where I’ve had to underclock in order to get some games to run. Personal preference but I’d rather have a stock or slight OC card where I can chose how much (more) to OC. That being said the cooler looks pretty impressive.
If a card is unstable at the
If a card is unstable at the factory overclock, then that is justification to RMA the card.
For example, my GTX 760 was first unstable at the factory overclock, so I did an RMA, and got a replacement card (92% asic quality, and was stable on all games at 1306MHz core clock and around 1350MHz for some games with only the 12mv boost (if they had figured out how to unlock the voltage limit for the MSI cards, I could have easily taking that card to 1.5GHz.
Anyway, factory overclocks must be 100% stable.
While true it is a hastle to
While true it is a hastle to be with out a video card for several weeks.
You took the words right out
You took the words right out of my brain!
I base my purchases on
I base my purchases on consumer and professional reviews, newegg is great for consumer reviews, if a product has a lot of people leaving positive reviews the chances of you getting a bad product thats needs to be RMAed is slim.