ZOTAC GTX 780 AMP! Edition Graphics Card Review

Benchmarks:

As with most of our reviews, we decided to only use the bench marking tools that we thought would be the most relevant for this review. Below you will find the results of both the stock and overclocked benchmarks for each of the tests.

 

3D Mark

3DMark pushes your graphics card to the limits. This is one of the best tests out there for seeing how well your GPU handles itself under stress, which makes it perfect for the gaming system that we are testing. For this this review we used the Fire Strike test, which is more than capable of showing us how well our computer handles getting thrown in the fire, and the ZOTAC gtx 780 AMP! edition did not disappoint. We scored in the top 11% of system’s ever tested stock and when we ran the test with our overclock, it launched us into the top 7% of systems tested. Now that’s what we like to see!

 

Grid 2

 

 

The guys over at Codemasters released Grid 2 a little over a year ago. This visually stunning game serves as a great benchmark to test how well your system performs with all of it’s settings max out. When running this game at stock, we averaged around 125 fps and maxed out at almost 160. We saw an increase of 5% in average fps when we applied our overclock, letting us run this game as smooth as ever maxed all the way out.

 

Tomb Raider

 

Tomb Raider is an absolutely stunning game created by the folks over at Square Enix. We bumped up all of the settings to ultra and were very surprised to see how well it did, averaging  115 fps. We then applied our overclock and saw a 5.5% increase in performance, averaging around an incredible 125 fps. For such a demanding graphical marvel this card had no problems pushing it to its limits.

 

Valley 1.0

The Valley benchmark is known for pushing your systems GPU to the limits, so naturally we wanted to run this to see we would score. The average frame rate was an impressive 64.7 stock and increased by 5 more frames with the overclock. This increased our score by almost 8 % from our original.