Introduction

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 was introduced earlier this year and has since taken the enthusiast market by storm. It offers great performance at significantly reduced power consumption. NVIDIA's dynamic overclocking algorithm works well and provides a nice speed boost for the card.



Point of View's GTX 680 TGT Ultra Charged comes with a large triple-slot, triple-fan cooler. GPU Clock speed has been increased to 1111 MHz, while memory remains at the NVIDIA default of 1502 MHz. Memory capacity has been doubled to 4 GB, which will hopefully provide some benefit in more demanding games at higher resolutions. According to a sticker on the package, Point of View actively selects GPUs with low leakage, which provides improvements in power consumption, resulting in better heat and noise.

With a price of $560 the card is in the typical range for a custom design, overclocked, GTX 680 card.

Packaging

Contents

You will receive:

• Graphics card
• Driver CD + Documentation

The Card

The GTX 680 TGT Ultra uses three large fans that cover the whole graphics card. On the back, a backplate has been installed. It helps protect components against damage and provides a bit of cooling for the memory chips on the back side.


The card requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two dual-link DVI ports, one full-size HDMI port and one full-size DisplayPort. You may use all the outputs at the same time thanks to NVIDIA Kepler's new display output controller.

An HDMI sound device is included in the GPU as well. It is HDMI 1.4a compatible - includes HD audio and support for Blu-ray 3D movies. The DisplayPort outputs are version 1.2 which enables the use of hubs and Multi-Stream Transport.


You may combine up to four GTX 680 cards from any vendor in a multi-GPU SLI configuration for higher frame-rates or better image quality settings.


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