Zotac GeForce GTX 580 AMP! Edition

Zotac's GeForce GTX 580 AMP! Edition is designed for those interested in fluid framerates and, in the company's GTX 580 portfolio, it sits behind only the bonkers Zotac GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition.

Retailing for US $560 Zotac's GeForce GTX 580 AMP! Edition isn't exactly inexpensive. However, when you compare it to Asus' Matrix GTX 580 P/2DIS/1536MD5, which retails for $750 and Gigabyte's GV-N570SO-13I, which retails for $510, Zotac's card makes sense.            

This is even more so when comparing the Zotac to the Gigabyte card because the latter offers an overclocked GTX 570 GPU and only 1,280MB of GDDR5 memory to the latter's GTX 580 GPU and 1,536MB of memory.

In terms of performance we found ourselves pleased with the Zotac's numbers. In our DirectX 10-compliant H.A.W.X benchmark the card produced figures of 200fps, 156fps and 134fps. The much more expensive Asus card on the other hand managed figures of 202fps, 153fps and 134fps.

At the same time the Zotac was also faster than Gigabyte's overclocked GTX 570 card which only managed figures of 199fps, 144fps and 127fps. While the Zotac is only a fraction faster in our benchmark tests it's worth remembering that newer games will likely bog down the GTX 570-powered Gigabyte faster than they would Zotac's GTX 580.