Packaging

The Card

Zotac is introducing a new Amp Extreme Infinity design theme for their GeForce 50-series cards. It uses various shades of gray with metallic highlights. On the back you get a metal backplate with a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 33.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 2161 g.


Installation requires four slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 70 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1b and one HDMI 2.1b.

Standard for all GeForce RTX 50-series Blackwell cards is a new display engine that supports three DisplayPort 2.1b outputs, each capable of UHBR20; and one HDMI 2.1a. Both interfaces support DSC (display stream compression). With DSC enabled, a single DisplayPort on this card can drive 4K 12-bit HDR at 480 Hz; or 8K 12-bit HDR at up to 165 Hz. The RTX 5080 features an updated media acceleration engine with support for 4:2:2 video formats, AV1 UHQ, and MV-HEVC. There are two independent NVENC and NVDEC units.


The card uses a single 16-pin connector, which allows a maximum power draw of 600 W.

To the left of the power connector you see a push button—it is used to switch the dual BIOS. Unlike other cards which have a classic switch, this button requires that the card is powered up. Once pressed, the RGB will either light red (performance BIOS) or blue (quiet BIOS). Then reboot your machine and the new BIOS will be activated.

Further to the left is the Zotac "Spectra Link port," which is used to synchronize the card's RGB lighting with your motherboard.


Zotac has added an RGB illumination zone alone the top edge of the card, and another one near the back.

Teardown

The Zotac thermal solution uses seven heatpipes and a vapor-chamber baseplate. It provides cooling not only for the GPU, but also for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate protects the card against damage during installation and handling.