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Zotac GeForce GTX 285 AMP! Edition review

The new 'fastest ever single GPU' graphics card. But what's the point?

Our Score 4

Last reviewed: 2009-01-15January 15th 2009

Price at launch £319.99
Features 55 nm Fabrication / PCIe x16 2.0 / 1024Mb GDDR3 / DX10 and Open GL 2.1 / TDP: 183 Watts / NVIDIA PhysX / NVIDIA CUDA / NVIDIA Lumenex / NVIDIA GigaThread / SLI Ready / NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Ready / NVIDIA PureVideo HD
Interface Type PCI Express
DVI Ports 2
GPU Nvidia
Graphics Core Clockspeed 648
Graphics Interface Type PCI Express x16
Graphics Memory (Mb) 1024
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 2.4
Max Supported Resolution 2048 x 1536
Transistor Count 1.4E+9
Video Output Dual-Link DVI

Product Summary

GeForce GTX 285 AMP! Edition

Zotac GeForce GTX 285 AMP! Edition-Main

Price at launch

£319.99

For

>

The fastest single-GPU card available

>

overclocked and sweetly bundled

Against

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Too expensive though

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Relatively uninspiring performance

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