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Circuit Board (PCB) Analysis

GPU voltage is a 14-phase design, managed by a Monolithic Power Systems MP2857 controller.


Monolithic MP87997 DrMOS components are used for GPU voltage; they are rated for 70 A of current each.


Memory voltage is a three-phase design, managed by a Monolithic Power Systems MP2856 controller.


For memory, Monolithic MP87997 DrMOS with a 70 A rating are used again.


As mentioned before, the card has a USB-C DisplayPort-passthrough output. This chip enables that functionality, it supports USB PD 3.0,


The GDDR6 memory chips are made by Hynix and carry the model number H56G42AS8DX-014. They are specified to run at 2500 MHz (20 Gbps effective).


AMD's new Navi 31 graphics processor is the world's first GPU that uses a chiplet architecture. Note the large die in the center, called "GCD," graphics compute die, which houses the compute units, it is surrounded by six smaller "MCD," memory cache dies, that contain one memory controller interface and one slice of cache each. While they look similar, the MCDs are not HBM memory chips. The MCDs are fabricated on a 6 nm process at TSMC Taiwan with a die size of 36.6 mm² each, the GCD is fabricated using TSMC's 5 nanometer node, with a die size of 300 mm². The combined transistor count of the GPU is 57.7 billion.

As mentioned before, the XT has only five MCDs, the sixth one that you see in the photo above is a non-functional dummy die, used to stabilize and distribute the heatsink pressure.