The GTX 480 is late. The GTX 480 is hot. Both of these facts have now been established by both ourselves and a gazillion other review sites. We will therefore not dwell upon these factors in this review of the first Fermi card from Zotac to enter the ITShootout.com labs. Since XFX’s partial defection to ATi last year, Zotac has become an increasingly important NVIDIA release partner here in the UK. You’ll probably be familiar with the brand by now if you like to keep abreast of developments in IT.