Zotac GeForce 8800 GTX OC Edition Review

Name: Zotac GeForce 8800 GTX OC Edition
Brand: ZOTAC

W1zzard

on May 30th, 2007,

in Graphics Cards.

Manufacturer: ZOTAC

Introduction

Zotac is a new player in the video card business. They are manufacturing only NVIDIA video cards and were established earlier this year. However, they have great potential because they are affiliated with PC Partner who supply cards to Sapphire for example too.

Their GeForce 8800 GTX OC is, as the name suggests, an overclocked version of the GeForce 8800 GTX. All specs remain the same, except for the clock speeds which were raised by Zotac to 630 MHz core and 1000 MHz memory. The core clock is even higher than that of the GeForce 8800 Ultra which was released just a few days ago.

	AMD HD 2900 XT	8800 GTX	Zotac 8800 GTX OC	8800 Ultra
Shader units	320	128	128	128
ROPs	16 x2	24	24	24
GPU	R600	G80	G80	G80
Transistors	700 M	681 M	681 M	681 M
Memory Size	512 MB	768 MB	768 MB	768 MB
Memory Bus Width	512 bit	384 bit	384 bit	384 bit
Core Clock	742 MHz	575 MHz	630 MHz	612 MHz
Memory Clock	825 MHz	900 MHz	1000 MHz	1080 MHz
Price	$399	$599	$629	$829

Complete Specifications

For a more detailed look at the specifications and what they mean for you, read our NVIDIA G80 article.

Bus interface: PCI Express
Memory: 768MB
Memory Interface: 384 bit
Core Clock: 630 MHz
Memory Clock: 2000 MHz
RAMDACs: 400 MHz
NVIDIA® unified architecture with GigaThread™ technology
Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4.0 support
16x full-screen anti-aliasing
True 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting
NVIDIA® Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology
Two dual-link DVI outputs support two 2560x1600 resolution displays
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ technology
OpenGL® 2.0 support
NVIDIA ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine
NVIDIA® nView® Multi-Display Technology
Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
Discrete, Programmable Video Processor
Hardware Decode Acceleration
Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
High-Quality Scaling
Inverse Telecine (3:2 & 2:2 Pulldown Correction)
Bad Edit Correction
Video Color Correction
Integrated SD and HD TV Output
Noise Reduction
Edge Enhancement

Packaging

Zotac's box has their green theme with a cartoon like character on the front. The front has a small blue sticker "OC Edition" which I didn't see immediately when looking at the package for the first time. The writing at lower part of the front still states "8800 GTX".