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Zotac GeForce GTX 275 AMP! review

A powerful card that offers a sweet spot between price and performance

Our Score 4.5

Last reviewed: 2009-04-03April 3rd 2009

Price at launch £253.00
Features 2nd Generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture / 3-way SLI Technology / DirectX 10 Support / CUDA Technology / PCI Express 2.0 Support / SLI Multi-Monitor support / GigaThread™ Technology / NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine / 16x Anti-aliasing Technology / 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting / OpenGL 2.1 Optimization and Support / Dual Dual-link DVI Support / HDMI Output / NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology / Discrete, Programmable Video Processor / Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration / Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color Stretch
Additional Information Processor Cores: 240 / Processor Clock: 1404 MHz / Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec): 50.6 / HDMI via adapter / Width: Dual slot / Max GPU temp: 105 C / Maximum power: 221W
Dimensions 111.1 x 266.7
Interface PCI Express 2.0
Power Supply Minimum: 550W power supply / Supplementary Power Connectors: 2 x 6-pin
GPU Nvidia
Graphics Core Clockspeed 702
Graphics Interface Type PCI Express x16
Graphics Memory (Mb) 896
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 2.502
Graphics Memory Type GDDR3
Max Supported Resolution 2560 x 1600
Nvidia Graphics Memory 448-bit GDDR3 / Memory bandwidth: 130 GB/sec
RAMDACs 400
Recommended Power Supply 550
Shader Support DirectX 10 / Open GL 3.0
Video Output Dual-Link DVI

Product Summary

GeForce GTX 275 AMP! Edition

Nvidia GeForce GTX 275

Price at launch

£253.00

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Overclocking potential

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The price is right

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