A Closer Look

Club3D's fansink uses just one heatpipe, which is doubled up though. The card doesn't need an expensive copper base either. In our testing later, we'll see how well that works.


The card requires one 6-pin PCI-Express power cable for operation. This power configuration is good for up to 150 W of power draw.


Club3D has chosen a cost-efficient NCP5395 as voltage regulator. Compared to the CHiL solution that we've seen on other HD 7800 Series cards, it lacks software voltage control and monitoring features.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Elpida and carry the model number W1032BBBG-50-F. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


AMD's Pitcairn graphics processor completes the AMD 28 nm GPU stack. It is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC, with a transistor count of 2.8 billion.