ZOTAC’s GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition Is Official!

Popular video card manufacturer Zotac has just launched the GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition custom Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 Kepler-based design, on its official website. It comes with a very powerful VRM and custom cooling system.

Zotac’s custom video cards have always impressed the PC enthusiast gamers, but the company’s GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition is actually bringing a record under the belt. Having a memory frequency of 1,652 MHz with a GDDR5 6600 MHz effective frequency, the GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition achieves a staggering 211 GB/s memory bandwidth. That is the highest memory bandwidth ever achieved on a 256-bit BUS.

Most of the GTX 670 AMP! Edition design is inherited from the company’s GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition that we’ve already presented here. Therefore, the GTX 670 AMP! comes with the same a large cooling system that has two 90-millimeter fans controlled by PWM, that are blowing air over a large aluminum heatsink containing four copper heat pipes that help the GPU distribute the heat evenly among the fins.

The frequencies are, of course, higher than the reference design. We have 1,098 MHz (core base frequency), 1,176 MHz (core boost active), and the record-breaking 6,600 MHz for the memory.

Nvidia’s reference, on the other hand, stands at 915/994/6008 MHz. Of course, the memory chips are cooled by special installed heatsinks being by the air flow coming from the two 90 millimeter fans.

Thus Zotac offers the slightly stronger VRM and the pre-overclocked frequencies that are around 20 percent higher on the GPU and 10 percent higher on the memory, with the hope gamers will choose the company’s product and pay the 439 USD price. That’s around 338 EUR for the European buyers.

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