Zotac GeForce 580 AMP! Edition 1.5GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 10 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

6
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Outstanding performance.
Includes copy of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.
Overclocked out of the box.

Cons:

High price.
Uses reference design cooler.

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Last revision on February 8, 2012

Reviewers Liked

Outstanding performance
Includes copy of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Overclocked out of the box
Quieter than other cards in this performance class
Better overclocking potential than reference design
Reduced power consumption
CHiL voltage regulator with I2C voltage control support
Native HDMI output
Overclocking speeds show good performance bump
No temperature changes from stock speed

Reviewers Didn't Like

High price
Uses reference design cooler
Still not as power efficient as AMD's designs
Power draw limiter could complicate advanced overclocking
Still limited to two active display outputs per card
DirectX 11 relevance limited at this time
Performance increase barely justifies the level of price increase

Expert reviews and ratings

A sensibly priced high-end Nvidia card that offers solid performance figures and a quiet cooling system....

By ITP.net on August 18, 2011

Like most Nvidia GeForce GTX 580–based cards, Zotac's overclocked version of the current king of single-GPU boards is screaming fast, madly expensive, and impressively power-hungry. Buy it...

By PC Mag on April 08, 2011

GTX580 rocks, but Zotac need to drop the price, significantly. Worth buying if you can find it at a lower...

By Kitguru.net on March 30, 2011

Nvidia's original GeForce GTX 580 is a lightening fast card, and is the fastest thing on single GPU legs right now. So an overclocked version, like this GTX 580 AMP! from Zotac is surely going to be a beast.Buying a pre-overclocked graphics card...

By TechRadar on February 02, 2011

ZOTAC's GeForce GTX 580 AMP! Edition does not bring many improvements to the table. The card is a complete implementation of NVIDIA's reference design with higher clocks. Its increased clock speed of 815 MHz, vs. 772 MHz on the reference design,...

By techPowerUp! on January 13, 2011

The Nvidia GTX 580 cards have been out in the wild for over 2 months now, and with the significantly improved cooling solution (and better heat management on the GF 110 chip), it’s not surprising to see overclocked cards coming out in the...

By Tbreak.com on January 12, 2011

Zotac have produced a bit of a monster here. It sure is expensive but it does perform. In terms of FPSvsCost, it doesn’t have anywhere near as much bang for buck as the midrange; but you knew that anyway. It also draws a lot of power so...

By XSReviews on May 26, 2011

The GeForce GTX 580 GPU is a marked improvement over its predecessor and should really have been nVidia's first, high-end 'Fermi', rather than the GTX 480....

By ITP.net on February 09, 2011

Nvidias aktuelles Spitzenmodell ist die GTX 580. Nur noch einmal zur Erinnerung: Der Nvidia-Start mit DirectX-11-Grafikchips war recht holprig. Die GF100 Fermi-GPU auf den Geforce-Karten GTX 465, GTX 470 und GTX 480 schluckt enorm viel Strom, wird...

By Chip.de on February 02, 2011

Une carte GeForce GTX 580 surcadencée par Zotac pour un faible gain La carte graphique haut de gamme de Zotac monte en fréquences, mais le gain de performances n'est pas au rendez-vous. Aymeric Siméon | 01net. | le 17/01/2011 à...

By 01Net on January 17, 2011

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