Friday, March 23rd 2012
ZOTAC Working On GeForce GTX 680 with 2 GHz Core Clock Speed
Speaking at a conference of AIC partners, ZOTAC (China) General Manager Mr. Kwai claimed that his company was working on a "Godly" GeForce GTX 680 non-reference design graphics card, with 2 GHz core clock speed. The card will be designed to demonstrate ZOTAC's engineering potential with non-reference designs. It will be ready by mid-April, 2012. Then again, there could be a catch. ZOTAC China has, in the past, designed certain bleeding-edge graphics cards exclusively for the Chinese market, which never made it to Europe and the US. ZOTAC is an NVIDIA-exclusive brand backed by OEM Goliath PC Partner, which also holds AMD-exclusive brand Sapphire Technology.
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51 Comments on ZOTAC Working On GeForce GTX 680 with 2 GHz Core Clock Speed
*Goes to local post office and purchases all remaining lottery tickets*
And btw, want a godly GTX680? then pump up the bandwidth... no bandwidth? say goodbye to godly.
Probably translation error or misunderstanding.
My heart believes this might 'just' be possible...
also guessing ZOTAC will crank it up to 2012 MHz! (pun intended! :D), possibly labeling it as part of their 'Infinity Edition' series... a la GTX580 IE.. traditional liquid cooling methods will be insufficient to keep the temps in check.. continuous sub-zero cooling is needed & the possibility of LN2 in a 'closed-loop' system with heat exchanger is not a viable/reliable option.. but sub-zero cooling can be practically achieved with thermo-electric (or) 'peltier effect modules' and here is a demo(click) of what is possible with a relatively simple setup... the heat exchanger for the peltier module in this demo was incidentally a cpu air cooler & the other(exposed) side of the peltier module freezes the water over it.. in fact, 'DigitalStorm' have their own sub-zero system based on thermo-electric effect called Sub-Zero Cryo-TEC System(click)
it will be quite an achievement if Zotac does make it..
but on the other hand my mind thinks:
And then achieving 2ghz. Now that's another story altogether...