14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, we only made a brief mention of the latest iteration of the GeForce GTX Titan graphics card, since the board, while it had shown up online, hadn't been formally unveiled yet.
Now it has, and we dare say it definitely has what it needs to justify the name GeForce GTX Titan AMP! Edition.
The Titan is already an overpowered video adapter, but Zotac took things a whole league further by overclocking the GPU and memory.
On the reference board, the GPU operates at 837 MHz / 876 MHz (Base / GPU Boost) and the 6 GB of GDDR5 VRAM at 6,144 MHz.
On Zotac's board, the frequencies are of 902 MHz / 954 MHz and 6,608 MHz, respectively.
And yet the cooler is the same. Zotac managed to basically improve performance by 10% without physically changing it in any noticeable way.
"Gamers have always depended on the ZOTAC GeForce AMP! Edition series for the best performance within a given series. With the ZOTAC GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition, we're able to deliver the absolute best performance from a single GPU in this generation," says Carsten Berger, senior director, ZOTAC International.
As far as the rest of the specifications are concerned, Zotac stuck to the blueprint. That means the GTX Titan AMP! Edition gets NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0 technology, 384-bit memory interface, NVIDIA FXAA & TXAA technology, NVIDIA Surround technology, Adaptive Vertical Sync, NVENC video transcoding acceleration, OpenGL 4.3, SLI-ready, etc.
Finally, the product ships with all three Assassin's Creed Games (Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Revelations) and Zotac's Boost Premium software bundle (Nero Kwikmedia, XBMC, UNIGINE Heaven DX11 Benchmark).
Online retailers should already have the item for sale at $1,029 / €1,029 or equivalent in other currencies, depending on what countries the stores serve. Not too much of a premium over the $1,000 / €1,000 of the reference adapter.