Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Let's start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.

So the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP! EXTREME is offered as a 'AMP! EXTREME' Edition. As you can see, Zotac overhauled their board from the reference design. You will spot a nice matte black PCB with on it, two 8-pin power headers to feed the beast. The PCB is as mentioned matte black in color, and of course the new Ice Storm cooler is being used. It is a rather bulky three slot design though, but more on that in a tidbit.

Board partners will be able to release the Ti model cards in their own configurations, including different cooling solutions. During Computex we already showed a thing or two, other designs with launches later in the month. This is the AMP! Extreme, meaning it has higher factory clocks, quite impressive as well. The default mode base clock is clocked at 1253 MHz, with a boost allowance up-to 1355 MHz.The memory is clocked at a modest 1774x4 = 7.1 GHz (effective data-rate) on its 384-bit wide memory bus of 6GB GDDR5 memory.

The card itself is a triple-slot solution, it is composite heat-pipe based, the GPU is cooled by a copper base plate connected to heat pipes. EKO technology eliminates fan noise in low-load situations by stopping the fans when they are not needed Up-to roughly 60 Degrees C, the fans won't even spin and thus up-to that point this card remains passivley cooled.

The refernce card will have a power design of roughly 250 Watts, but due to the high clocks and extensive tweaking design this card consumes way more, even over 300 Watt as we'll show you later. Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate with plenty of venting spaces applied as well. Unfortunately the backside of the GPU remains covered.