ZOTAC Launches GTX 650 and AMP! Edition Video Cards

The most difficult aspect about overclocking today’s video cards is managing to achieve a higher memory frequency. Generally, if the card’s manufacturer doesn’t take care of it right out of the factory, the user should get his hopes up about memory overclocking.

Nvidia’s Kepler GPU is a very good overclocker and the memory frequency usually becomes the bottleneck, so you can imagine that we were pleasantly surprised by Zotac’s new GeForce GTX 650 AMP! Edition video card that comes with a 12% memory overclock right out of the box.

The GPU is also clocked higher than the reference default while the card has a custom dual-slot cooling system.

Clocked at a high 1189 MHz, the GK107 GPU on Zotac’s GeForce GTX 650 AMP! Edition video card has an 11% overclock compared with Zotac’s own standard GTX 650 video card.

The other difference between the two cards is the fact that the AMP! Edition also comes with double the GDDR5 memory quantity: 2 GB vs. 1 GB on the standard Zotac GTX 650 graphics adapter.

The manufacturer also has a 2 GB GTX 650 video card clocked at standard reference frequencies available, but we recommend that the buyers should choose between the previous two.

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