June 24, 2008: HONG KONG: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd., announced today massive performance gains on NVIDIA’s GTX 280 high-end graphics card. The Zotac GTX 280 AMP! Edition boasts the world’s fastest core clock speed topping a stunning 700MHz out of the box, so-far unbeaten by any other manufacturer.

“Yet again Zotac has demonstrated its exceptional ability to design and engineer the fastest card on the market” claimed Carsten Berger, Marketing Director, Zotac, “Overclocking the GTX 280’s core by almost 100MHz is a fantastic achievement, but to then mass produce it and maintain a 5 year warranty is outstanding”.

Priced around £20-30 higher than a standard GTX 280, the AMP! Edition offers over a staggering 12% performance hike1 for less than a 5% price increase2 while Zotac’s standard GTX 280 card remains one of the lowest priced in the market. Zotac is also bundling Codemaster’s Racedriver: GRID game with both the GTX 280 and GTX 280 AMP! Edition.

“As the Zotac brand is relatively new to the graphics market many people are unaware of our fantastic products” Berger continued. Zotac first launched the 8800GT in 2007 which also proved to be the highest clocked in the industry. “We are continually offering the best performance, quality, reliability, warranty and most importantly, the ultimate in value for our customers” he concluded.

Zotac is currently NVIDIA’s fastest growing AIB partner thanks to the continued support of a loyal and expanding customer base.

1. Calculated from benchmarks conducted by techpowerup.com, 12.63% performance increase inFEAR (2048x1536, 4xAA, 16xAF).
2. Taken from typical street pricing in the UK at the time of writing, June 20th 2008.

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Specifications
Product Name: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 280 (Standard spec) ZOTAC GeForce GTX 280 AMP! Edition
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Core Clock speed: 602 MHz 700 MHz
Processor Cores 240 240
Processor Clocks 1296 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory Clock speed: 2214 MHz 2300 MHz
Memory 1GB GDDR3 1GB GDDR3
Memory interface: 512-bit 512-bit
Cooling: Active Active
DirectX™ version DirectX™ 10, Shader Model 4.0 DirectX™ 10, Shader Model 4.0
Other hardware features Dual Dual-link DVI, HDCP, NVIDIA PhysX ready, PureVideo HD technology Dual Dual-link DVI, HDCP, NVIDIA PhysX ready, PureVideo HD technology
Software Features: nView® Multi-Display nView® Multi-Display
Windows Vista capability Certified for Windows Vista with aero user interface Certified for Windows Vista with aero user interface

About ZOTAC International (MCO) Limited
ZOTAC International is a part of PC Partner Ltd. Group. ZOTAC is also one of the largest NVIDIA add-in board and motherboard manufacturers in the world with over 10 years of quality manufacturing experience. The ZOTAC philosophy is to deliver the latest products at competitive prices without sacrificing quality.

For further information please visit www.zotac.com