Zotac announces GTX 580 AMP2!

VGA maker Zotac's just launched its new AMP2! card, a custom cooled GTX 580 with 3GB of memory!

The GTX 580 may not be the top of Nvidia's line anymore, but it's still a powerful card not to be sneezed at. It gets even more grunt, now, courtesy of Zotac and its AMP²! edition of the card.

Apart from a new custom high performance cooler, the new card also boasts a giant 3GB of RAM. That's double the amount of the reference GTX580 - not a figure to be sneezed at. However, the card's pretty big, taking two and half expansion slots.

Here's the raw stats:

New ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP²!Edition graphics card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU
Engine clock: 815 MHz
512 unified shaders
Shader clock: 1630 MHz
3GB GDDR5 memory
Memory clock: 4100 MHz
384-bit memory interface
Dual dual-link DVI-I & mini-HDMI outputs
PCI Express 2.0 interface (Compatible with 1.1)
Microsoft DirectX 11 & OpenGL 4.1 compatible
NVIDIA CUDA technology with CUDA C/C++
NVIDIA PhysX technology
NVIDIA SLI (3-way) and 3D Vision Surround ready
ZOTAC Boost Premium software bundle included

The card also comes with a copy of Assassins' Creed: Brotherhood.

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6 Comments

philo-sofa Apr 7, 2011 11:14 AM	Am I right in thinking that AMP! editions tend to have horrible idling noise levels, or was that just a bad BIOS setup that I'm thinking of?
jdog Apr 7, 2011 1:53 PM	it looks like a nice card, but i would love a reference (for SLI) card with 3GB from gigabyte/asus etc. that would be awesome!
Dazerath Apr 8, 2011 5:48 AM	@jdog - Have you checked out the ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II graphics card? http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=7M4ZmmyCUC2E1mve&templete=2
jdog Apr 8, 2011 9:44 AM	@Dazerath - the Asus DCU 2 is triple slot card (so its not good for SLI) and it only had 1.5GB of vram as well. EVGA us going to release a 3GB refrence 580 card soon,hopefully the other card makers will take notice and make some of thier own.
cheozuka Apr 13, 2011 12:06 AM	Pretty sweet! I like the 3 way Sli reference! you would be hard pressed to fit 3 in a case, or even most motherboards. lol. But still nice oc, and would be pretty tasty and easily grunty enough in SLi..
cheozuka Apr 13, 2011 12:06 AM	Pretty sweet! I like the 3 way Sli reference! you would be hard pressed to fit 3 in a case, or even most motherboards. lol. But still nice oc, and would be pretty tasty and easily grunty enough in SLi..

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