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Zotac GeForce GTX 480 AMP! Edition 1.5GB GDDR5 PCIe

Based on 10 reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

5
Average:

2
Bad:

0

Pros

Higher GPU and memory frequencies, High performance in contemporary games, High minimal performance compared with AMD products, Unbeatable performance in SLI mode, High performance with enabled tessellation, Wide range of supported FSAA modes, Improved CS
Considerably lower temperatures than reference design, Overclocked out of the box, Reasonably priced, Good overclocking potential, Native HDMI output, GDDR5 memory, Lower power draw than reference design, Support for DirectX 11, Support for NVIDIA 3D Visi

Cons

Tripleslot formfactor, Sloppy cooling system implementation, Insufficient performance of the TMU subsystem, Low overclocking potential, No support for Protected Audio Path.
Very noisy fan in idle, Requires three slots in the system, DirectX 11 won't be relevant for quite a while

By OverClock Intelligence Agency on January 20, 2011

Up until late last year, the GeForce GTX 480 was NVIDIA's golden child. Time has since passed the 400 series by and the high-end 500 series cards now hold that title, but that doesn't mean this card should be dismissed just yet.As evident by our...

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By XtremeComputing on November 29, 2010

Once again, I think it’s worth pointing out that the Inno3D GTX 480 is in itself an overclocked card (720Mhz core, 1440Mhz shader, 3800Mhz memory). So the Zotac GTX 480 AMP’s performance will be even better than the stock GTX 480 which is...

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By HotHardware on August 17, 2010

Going into this article, we had a good idea of how the Zotac GTX 480 Amp Edition would perform. That's because we recently tested a similarly overclocked GTX 480 from EVGA, and the clock speeds of the two cards were very close, a difference of only...

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By Kitguru.net on June 24, 2010

A few weeks ago we reviewed the and walked away with generally favourable feelings – after all there was no doubting the astonishing tessellation performance and frame rate prowess with all of the leading game engines. We did however have...

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By TechRadar on June 23, 2010

Nothing inspires less confidence in the quiet running of a top-end GPU than the words 'dual-turbine' slapped onto its cooler. That said, though, the plain black stock cooler that usually adorns the vanilla-flavoured Nvidia GTX 480 could quite...

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By X-bit Labs on June 23, 2010

The Zotac GeForce GTX 480 AMP! graphics card we used for this review features an advanced and quiet cooling system which can keep its GPU as cool as 70°C. It also comes with pre-overclocked frequencies. However,...

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By Bit-tech.net on June 21, 2010

The Zotac GTX 480 AMP! is the first pre-overclocked GTX 480 we’ve seen. We were sceptical about how impressive such cards were likely to be, given how hot and loud the stock card runs.Happily we can say that the Zotac has proved us wrong to a...

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By HEXUS.net on June 04, 2010

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 AMP! is a well-overclocked Fermi-based card - 756MHz core/3,800MHz memory vs. 700MHz/3,696MHz for reference - that's very quiet in operation. How's that for an apparent oxymoron, folks?ZOTAC has achieved what seemed...

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By techPowerUp! on May 26, 2010

It looks like ZOTAC did the right thing partnering up with Zalman. At about 5% faster, the GeForce GTX 480 Amp! Edition offers a solid performance improvement over NVIDIA's reference design. Thanks to the VF3000 thermal solution from Zalman this...

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By PC-Max on April 13, 2011

Obwohl die GTX 480 AMP! je nach Anwendung und Szenario knapp 15 bis 20 Prozent langsamer als das aktuelle Fermi-Flaggschiff ist, bietet die High-End-Grafikkarte ein mittlerweile gutes Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis. Der werksseitig übertaktete...

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