Zotac RTX 2080 Ti AMP review: the fastest graphics card we’ve ever had in our test bench

When Nvidia released the RTX 2080 Ti it was hard to get our heads around the price the company was asking for its top-end GeForce gaming graphics card. With an overclocked Founders Edition SKU coming out at launch with a $1,200 price tag that seems like an offensive amount of money to be asking for a gaming-focused GPU. But then it’s not really a graphics card for us gamers, it’s this generation's Titan. An ultra-enthusiast, epic-class GPU for the minority of people desperate for performance at all costs. Doubling down on that finite market comes Zotac’s own overclocked version of the the top Turing GPU, the Zotac RTX 2080 Ti AMP. We were promised that we’d see some reference-clocked versions appear around the more reasonable - though still thoroughly unreasonable - $999 MSRP. But what the hell, Zotac has released an RTX 2080 Ti with a similar price tag to the Founders Card, and with performance to make it blush. Now it doesn’t totally embarrass Nvidia’s own version, but the extra clock speed boost the Zotac GPU has been given allows its AMP edition card to come out on top across the board, and its superior chip chiller means it does it all a whole lot cooler too.