ZOTAC GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Review – Single and Dual SLI Configs

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CLOUD GATE

Cloud Gate is a DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark suitable for all classes of DirectX 10 compatible windows notebooks and home PCs. Watch as massive spaceships careful position themselves inside these barrel-shaped portals and within seconds are transported to a new world.

Our first benchmark test achieves a total score of 23628, while maintaining over 200 fps in both graphical tests. Our physics test did return with a lower than expected score of 25 fps.

SKY DIVER

The next step up in our benchmark testing series is Sky Diver. This is one of the best benchmarks to sit back, relax and just live in the moment. Watch as a sky diver plummets off of a cliff and traces a mountainside, with speeds quick enough to keep up with a agile hawk. This test is used to benchmark systems with mainstream graphics cards, mobile GPUs, or integrated graphics.

With the Sky Diver test, the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition achieves a total score of 20687. For both of the graphics test the graphics card achieved an average fps of 115.5. Notice in the top right of the results screen, we are given the warning that the ‘Graphics Driver Is Not Approved’. Interestingly enough, this warning was only featured on this test, and the driver was completely up to date.

FIRE STRIKE

Lastly is Fire Strike, a graphics-intesive test that pushes your graphics card to the limit. It is highly unrecommended to use this test on anything other than a dedicated graphics card. Watch carefully as the hero fights off a lava guartdian-type villain, and witness massive fight scenes that take place over platforms only feet away from lava. Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for higher-performance gaming PC’s and overclocked systems. Fire Strike is very demanding, even for the latest graphics cards.

Put through the intensive Fire Strike benchmark test, the ZOTAC graphics card achieve a total score of 7005 and an average fps of 34. During the test,the card experienced a ton of artifacts, which are small black boxes, colour patches and lines that appear when the graphics card is put through a lot of stress.