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

FUTUREMARK 3D MARK 11

3DMark 11 is an in-depth tour of the underwater world as you follow two submarines as they inspect an age-old sunken ship, then transition to the jungle where you follow an expedition on their trek. 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of DirectX 11 features including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

When we first installed the Zotac Geforce GTX 680, we used the accompanied driver disk to install the drivers. We proceeded to start testing without checking for the latest update to our graphics card. As you can see above, we were greeted by this warning in our benchmark saying “Graphics Card Driver is Not Approved”. Don’t worry, we went back into our NVIDIA GeForce Experience program and updated our drivers. Upgrading our drivers gave us the results below.

Take a look at the first benchmark test we included under 3DMARK 11, just by upgrading the driver we increased the total score from 10044 to 10405. We can not emphasize enough how important it is to make sure you keep your drivers and software up to date, especially when it can make your gaming experience that much better. The ZOTAC graphics card also pumped out, on average, 49 fps.

FUTUREMARK PCMARK VANTAGE

The gaming suite of Vantage tests the intense load placed upon graphics cards, HDDs and CPUs by today’s incredible games. While not as graphically invigorating as other tests, in Vantage you follow a pink and green orb as they float through and light up a dark forrest. While the test utilizes the HDD and CPU benchmarks, we are partial only to the GPU scores.

Our vantage results returned with some graphical improvements from some of our previous tests, achieving 108 fps in the first gaming suite, and 57 fps in the fourth gaming suite. The graphics card returned a total score of 27378.