Meet the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 2080 Amp
The GeForce RTX 2080 in Amp guise is Zotac's most fully featured and expensive RTX 2080-based graphics card.
The Power Connectors
The Zotac Amp card requires six-pin and eight-pin power supply connectors.
The I/O Panel
The ports are the standard array for an RTX card: three DisplayPorts, an HDMI 2.0, and a forward-looking VRLink connector for future VR headsets.
Three Fans FTW
The Founders Edition RTX 2080 uses just two fans, but Zotac amps up the cooling here for its out-of-the-box overclock.
Triple-Slot Goodness
You'll need to allocate three PCI Express slot positions for this extra-thick card; you can see how the fan assembly and heatsink overhang the port backplane.
Edge Adornments
The "ZOTAC GAMING" logo lights up and can be customized in Zotac's FireStorm utility.
A Very Metal Backplate
The backplate on this card has a cutaway for the back of the GPU. You can see how the heatsink overhangs the PCB here.
GPU Cutaway
Here's a closeup of the GPU cutout in the backplate; many other RTX cards we've seen have this area covered.
Deep Heatsink
The card's huge heatsink is there to handle the 1,830MHz factory overclock on the boost clock, a 120MHz or 7 percent increase over the RTX 2080 reference-spec boost clock.
Yeah, It's a Beast
At $839 for the Amp card versus $799 for Nvidia's own, you get more overhead for manual overclocking, if you're so inclined, with all the extra metal and airflow on display here.