ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Omega Edition 4GB PCI Express 3.0 HDMI DVI DisplayPort Graphics Card ZT-90202-10P Reviews

Very impressed so far! Was worried about the brand as I have no experience with them. But for being one of the cheaper GTX 980’s, this has great build quality! The entire fan chassis is metal, which took me by surprise. There is a metal back plate, and several small metal plates serving as heat dissipation on the front of the card. Almost no flex while installing. Any claims for being quiet, are very true. Three fans also help with the temps. For those wondering, the board is pretty much 99% built on reference PCB design. Only thing I’ve noticed so far is one cap was switched out for a block at the very end of the board, so any possibility of reference design water block compatibility looks very likely.

Only issue I’ve had is a known issue with the GTX 980 itself, not specifically this card, and the issue is that with some PSUs, some cards will prevent the system from booting (just a black screen), even if you’re plugged into an integrated graphics port instead. Luckily for me, I had a different power supply I planned on switching to anyways, so all was good for me.

Unless you need a card that has high chances of being very cherry, best of the bin, extremely overclockable, I would definitely suggest this card to somebody. When I need to buy a second card for SLI later, I will stick to this card.

Like it, love it, overclockes good. I was aware of the voltage issue prior to buying this. There is a newer firmware available and I did flash mine and it fixed the voltage limit. I dont over clock very often so it dosent matter – it has a factory 1500mhz OC you can turn on at any time which is more than sufficient.

Under full load it only ever gets around 63c and the fans are whisper quiet even at 100%. The was the other main reason I liked the zotac, its SILENT. I have a sound proof case with quiet fans and this added no noise, nothing like my older GTX 670’s. or any ATi weed-wacker loud fan.

In conclusion the issues with this card are grossly over rated. Its a beautiful card with an aluminum back plate and the entire thing has a carbon fiber look to it, silent and deadly fast (BF4 screams on this card). The lights are just perfect and all my friends get a kick of it going from green to flaming red under load.

If you want a card that screams, but silent yet stays really cool this is the one. Im an old EVGA loyalist and I gotta give Zotac some credit here. Warning though its HUGE. have 13" length available for the card and its a hair taller than my EVGA’s but itll fit in a standard case fine. Th length is the only thing that may bite you.

I’ve been a long term Nvidia user and this card is a great example why. I had a GTX780ti which I got ultra cheap but I really couldnt run most modern games at a playable 4k. It was close but no cigar. This card can do GTA V at 4k at about 47 fps with FXAA and AA off and it just looks fabulous. The best thing about the card is that I plug it directly into my monitor using a Display port cable (thing has four of them) and it simply works. Crysis 4 also runs really great at 4k on this card. I chose the Zotac because it was about 30 dollars cheaper than the alternatives. The fans seem quiet and the build of the board is really nice. The metal pieces that surround the fans are a very nice quality. Though the card has three fans there doesnt seem to be any more noise than what the case fans generate. The 780ti made a hell of alot more noise and was very warm. Before I bought this card I attemped to use a R9 295×2 but the included cable did not give me 4k and all the graphics looked terrible as the card recognized my monitor as a 1080p monitor with the DVI and HDMI. I was lured to Radeon because of the price for performance but just like before I had issues with Desktop graphics and the card would not function at 60hz at 4k. I returned that card to amazon and picked this up same day delivery and I cannot be happier. I will probably tone my games down to 1440p with some AA just to play everything at 60fps or higher. The games I have tested this card on at 4k are.
Crysis 4
GTA V
Cities: Skyline

All games are at least 47fps or higher.. at 1440p I would imagine all being above and beyond 60fps at that resolution. In a few weeks I’ll pick up another one of these for my quest to play 60fps at 4k for any current title.

I could not be more happier with the price, performance and ease of use of this Zotac card.

I have owned every generation of NVIDIA cards since the old days and we are really getting more for our money from Nvidia every year. This is my first Zotac card. in the past I have mainly bought EVGA and MSI.

I’m running an I7 3770k
Samsung uhd 28inch 590d 4k monitor
16 gigs of Corsair Evo Ram
500GB Samsung SSD
240GB Samsung SSD
The case is a Silverstone Fortress
PSU is a 750watt Silverstone Gold (which can power two of these)
I can’t recommend this any higher.