ZOTAC Prepares Non-Reference GeForce GTX 680 with 2GHz Core Clock

Mar 23, 2012 at 08:11pm EDT

ZOTAC's General Manager Mr. Kwai revealed in an AIC Partners conference that his company is currently working on a Non-Reference GeForce GTX 680 with a Core Clock of 2GHz.

A hefty cooling and power supply would be required to keep the card running at 2GHz under Thermal specs, EVGA's In-house overclocked KIngpIn overclocked a reference GTX 680 around 1.9GHz yesterday with the help of LN2 and an EVGA Epower Untouchables board which adds extra power phases to provide more juice for overclocking.

The card is said to launch Mid April 2012, Pricing is yet unknown but its sure gonna cost a premium over the reference models.

About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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