The summer has offered a real battle between the graphics card makers, where mainly Nvidia’s fresh Geforce GTX 1000 series has been in focus. Anyone who kept a cool head, and did not jump on the green team’s reference variants Founder’s Edition, could look forward to real porky cooling solutions paired with custom circuit boards and screwed up clock speeds straight out of cardboard.
One of the manufacturers that has really released all the inhibitions this graphics card generation is Hong Kong-based Zotac, whose maxed out Geforce GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme is the subject of today’s article. The question is whether the model’s soaring factory overclocking and insanely large coolers have what it takes to distinguish the model from the fierce competition?