ZOTAC Working On a GTX 680 at 2 GHz GPU ?

[Christian Ney]

Source in english here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/162935/ZOTAC-Working-On-GeForce-GTX-680-with-2-GHz-Core-Clock-Speed.html

Speaking at a conference of AIC partners, ZOTAC (China) General Manager Mr. Kwai claimed that his company was working on a "Godly" GeForce GTX 680 non-reference design graphics card, with 2 GHz core clock speed. The card will be designed to demonstrate ZOTAC's engineering potential with non-reference designs. It will be ready by mid-April, 2012. Then again, there could be a catch. ZOTAC China has, in the past, designed certain bleeding-edge graphics cards exclusively for the Chinese market, which never made it to Europe and the US. ZOTAC is an NVIDIA-exclusive brand backed by OEM Goliath PC Partner, which also holds AMD-exclusive brand Sapphire Technology.


http://www.comptoir-hardware.com/images/stories/_cg/gt600/zotac_gtx680.jpg

[der8auer]

LN2 Pot as stock cooler?

[Mean Machine]

Uhm, that's pushing it. Slightly.

[Massman]

Yeah. That's what we spoke about on CeBIT. Zotac has been releasing extreme cards on the chinese market for a while now, but those never make it to the US or EU.

Example:

GTX580

http://whatswithjeff.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/zotac_geforce_gtx_580-b.jpg

GTX560 Ti

http://elchapuzasinformatico.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Zotac-GTX-560-Ti-Extreme-Edition-3.jpg

GTX260

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TRsJKrwx2Sc/SuMcHUEVW-I/AAAAAAAAJpc/QPoj_btoKqQ/s400/Zotac+GTX260+Extreme.jpg

Dual GTS250

http://semiaccurate.com/static/uploads/2010/08_august/zotac_dual_gts250.JPG

Dual GTX460

http://www.ozone3d.net/public/jegx/201010/zotac_geforce_gtx495_dual_gpu.jpg

[thebanik]

Yeah, have never heard of non-reference design able to push 100% jump in clocks. 200/300/400Mhz at max I say......

[der8auer]

These are realy nice looking PCBs. Shame they don't publish them in europe.

[Calathea]

2Ghz? Just as the Sapphire 7970 Atomic 1335MHz BS? :)

[K404]

Side-question.....

Who has access to these non-ref cards? I would be interested in trying a few :) I imagine their GTS250 X2 is quite fun

[Massman]

I've seen a couple here at the bot. Few though ... very few.

[BenchZowner]

2GHz ? Sure.
How many tequila shots did they have before saying that ? :D

1.4GHz with proper cooling & voltage is more than possible.
But 2GHz ? Yeah right.

[oanvoanc]

maybe they are talking about a dual gpu card and made the mistake to add the GHZ :D

1+1=2 SOUNDS LEGIT! :D :D :D

[K404]

I kinda thought that too :D

[Turrican]

lol, seems like it's that. :D

[OBR]

that was misinterpreted, they are working on 2 GH capable card, but only under LN2 ... default clock will be 1200 MHz

[Sam OCX]

so they 'guarantee' 2GHz clock under LN2 or it is just a marketing prediction based on one super-duper-cherry-binned card ?

[wesjuhdabomb]

Send card back RMA. Reason: Does not reach 2ghz.. :D

[Christian Ney]

1600+ MHz GPU GTX 580 Classified certified anyone ? :D