Zotac GeForce GTX 275 Amp! Edition

, on Apr 2nd, 2009, in Graphics Cards. Manufacturer: ZOTAC

Introduction

Even though today was supposed to be AMD's day with the HD 4890 announcement, NVIDIA decided to crash their party. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 was initially planned for April 9, but when the green camp realized they had a great card on their hands they changed the date to ensure editors had GTX 275 comparison numbers in their reviews.

The GeForce GTX 275 doesn't bring anything new to the table. It is basically half a GTX 295 running at 633 / 1134 / 1404 MHz (core/memory/shader). You can see it as a GeForce GTX 285 with a 448-bit memory interface, or you could see it as a GTX 260 with 240 shaders and higher clocks.

Zotac as one of NVIDIA's premier partners has built an Amp! Edition card that uses the reference design, but comes at higher clocks of 702 MHz core, 1260 MHz memory and 1512 MHz shader for a price increase of about $20.

	GeForce 9800 GTX	GeForce GTS 250 1 GB	GeForce GTX 260	Radeon HD 4870	Radeon HD 4890	GeForce GTX 275	Zotac GTX 275 Amp!	GeForce GTX 280	Radeon HD 4870 X2	GeForce GTX 285
Shader units	128	128	192	800	800	240	240	240	2x 800	240
ROPs	16	16	28	16	16	32	28	32	2x 16	32
GPU	G92	G92	GT200	RV770	RV790	GT200	GT200	GT200	2x RV770	GT200b
Transistors	754M	754M	1400M	956M	959M	1400M	1400M	1400M	2x 956M	1400M
Memory Size	512 MB	1024 MB	896 MB	512 MB	1024 MB	896 MB	896 MB	1024 MB	2x 1024 MB	1024 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	256 bit	448 bit	256 bit	256 bit	448 bit	448 bit	512 bit	2x 256 bit	512 bit
Core Clock	675 MHz	738 MHz	576 MHz	750 MHz	850 MHz	633 MHz	702 MHz	602 MHz	750 MHz	648 MHz
Memory Clock	1100 MHz	1100 MHz	999 MHz	900 MHz	975 MHz	1134 MHz	1260 MHz	1107 MHz	900 MHz	1242 MHz
Price	$160	$149	$240	$190	$249	$249	$269	$315	$425	$350