Pictures of Zotac’s GTX 680 Extreme Edition surface

[siopao1984]

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Zotac is showing its engineering work with the Extreme Edition of the GTX 680, sporting some very interesting designs to say the least.



Taking Nvidia’s Kepler chip, equipping it with 2 GB of high-grade Hynix GDDR5 memory chips and pairing them with a 12-phase VRM power supply, it uses server-grade tantalum and FPCAP multi-phase capacitors in addition to the bleeding-edge International Rectifier GaNpowIR driver-MOSFETs. Driving all this technology is a CHiL CHL8318 VRM controller.
In addition to the consolidated voltage measurement points, Zotac’s Extreme Edition features a special native logic that takes input from a USB control module. The card will be bundled with a front-panel OC module to fit either into a 5.25″ or 3.5″ exposed drive bay, giving hardware control and real-time diagnostic information about clock speeds, fan speeds, and voltages.
As you can see, the card is equipped with a rather unique looking cooler, which makes use of two fans to ventilate a dense aluminium fin array through which are passed copper heat pipes dissipating heat from the GPU.
Aside from the rumoured 2GHz clock speed reported a while back, Zotac does claim that this card will break world record as well as setting new ones. More details were not given, that includes any clock speeds.

Source: TechPowerUp; Image: Expreview

[siopao1984]

[lloyd_joy]

yay, hapit na gi pang release ang mga non-reference design... nindot mag tan-aw ta's mga benchmark ani... mayta, lain napud ang maka surpass sa MSI Lightning series sa mga OC variants...

[friedrich]

zotac's design is looking good. it has a resemblance of the MSI Twin Frozr. glad they won't be using their black-yellow orange color scheme.

[lloyd_joy]

zotac's design is looking good. it has a resemblance of the MSI Twin Frozr. glad they won't be using their black-yellow orange color scheme.

hehehehe... plastic kaayo ug dating bro? mura'g sa zalman coolers...

[keropi]

Holy F!!!! 12 phase for a graphics card!! Never heard that til now..

[sakura_sweet]

When pa kaha ko maka palit og sama ani...lol

[lloyd_joy]

Holy F!!!! 12 phase for a graphics card!! Never heard that til now..

bro keropi,

the same ni sya sa atong power color HD6970 devil 13 na akoang gi ask dri sauna... 12 phase design man pud to... mahal gihapon kaayo dri... tsk tsk tsk... by the way, this card was officially launched last Oct '11...

PowerColor Official Website - Graphics, Cases, Power Supply -- PowerColor DEVIL 13 HD6970 2GB GDDR5

PowerColor DEVIL 13 HD 6970 2GB Video Card Review :: TweakTown USA Edition

[jimmy128]

surprised to see na wala ilang yellow mesh na theme ani nga card hehe looks really nice

[3kster]

oh lala,. ka lami tan.awon