A Closer Look

ASUS engineered a pretty solid cooler for their MARS 760. You can see where the two GPUs are located, each getting cooled by four heatpipes. Also visible on the cooler's base are thermal pads that cool voltage regulation circuitry, memory chips, and the PLX PCI-Express bridge chip.


A metal backplate is included with the card; it helps in protecting the card against damages during handling while improving its looks.


The card requires two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. This configuration is good for up to 375 W of power draw.


ASUS rebranded the voltage controllers on their card, so we don't know their exact make and model.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by SK Hynix and carry the model number H5GQ2H24AFR-R0C. They are specified to run at 1500 MHz (6000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


The PEX8747 48 lane PCI-Express Gen 3.0 bridge chip is the latest in PLX's arsenal of PCIe bridge chip solutions. It is used to link the two GPUs and connects them to the rest of the system.


NVIDIA's GK104 graphics processor introduced the company's Kepler architecture. Manufactured at TSMC in Taiwan, it is NVIDIA's first chip to be produced on a 28 nm process. The transistor count is 3.54 billion.