Thursday, April 7, 2011

Zotac GTX580 AMP2: 3GB VRAM, 3-slot cooling, and factory OC

Zotac has announced version AMP2! Edition of the GeForce GTX 580. The board uses the NVIDIA reference PCB but instead of the 12 video GDDR5 memory chips from 1024Mbit (128MB) density single chip using 12 GDDR5 Dual density: 2048Mbit (256MB). This change brings the total amount of VRAM on-board in 3072 MB against the GTX 580 1536MB classic.

It is not the first time that we find a similar amount of video memory on a GTX580, Palit and Gainward have previously had done the same thing. The customization continues with a heat sink made of Korean Zalman VF3000, a solution which takes up nearly three PCI slots on the motherboard.

The heat sink has dimensions of 239 x 98 x 51 mm and weighs 430 grams and uses the technology IHD (Interactive Heat Transfer Design) with two-way heatpipes to maximize heat transfer from the copper base to aluminum dissipation fins . There are two fans on the radiator 92mm EBR. Finally Zotac has edited the BIOS setting as the GTX 580 clock frequencies based values 815/1630/4100MHz (GPU / SPs / Mem) instead of 772/1544/4008MHz suggested by nVidia No details on price and date marketing is still available, but we know that the card will be sold bundled with the game Assassin's Creed series - Brotherhood.

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