14 DAY TRIAL // If you think NVIDIA's GeFoce GTX 680 video card is tough, you're right, but that doesn't change the fact that it won't even hold a candle to what Zotac is working on.
According to a QQ report, Zotac has decided to develop a Kepler-based video adapter whose graphics processing unit runs at 2 GHz.
That's right, even though the GeForce GTX 680 already operates at the gargantuan clock speed of 1,006 MHz, Zotac is not satisfied.
In fact, all the specifications of the Kepler product are high, as expected of the so-called strongest single-GPU video controller in the world, but the OEM wants to go above and beyond them anyway.
The company intends to complete the “Godly” GeForce GTX 680 by the middle of next month (April, 2012).
We hope it won't be limited to the Chinese market though. It wouldn't be the first time Zotac made a beast of a product only to ship it exclusively in that country.
For people who want to know what sort of high-end specs the NVIDIA OEM wants to leave in the dust, the features of GTX 680 are as follows.
The graphics chip has 1,536 CUDA cores operating at the same speed as the GPU (instead of making them faster, NVIDIA just doubled the shader count compared to previous architectures). Probably not, but the coincidence is interesting nonetheless.
Moving on, there are 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, working at 6 GHz (6,008 MHz to be precise). OpenGL 4.2 is supported, along with PCI Express 3.0, CUDA, DirectX 11, PhysX, 3-way SLI, 3D Vision and 3D Vision Surround.
As for connectivity, there are two DVI ports, an HDMI output and a DisplayPort connector. Zotac probably won't meddle with them, even though it will use a custom PCB and cooler. We don't have any pictures or renders to show you, but we'll keep an eye and ear out for more details.