A Closer Look

Colorful is using a cooler with six heatpipes.


After removing the main heatsink, a secondary baseplate becomes visible, which provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made of metal and protects the card against damage during handling and installation.


Colorful has upgraded the power input to two 8-pins, which is specified for 375 W of power draw.


Colorful includes a dual-BIOS feature with their card. The second BIOS has a slightly higher TDP adjustment limit of 240 W. The default TDP, clocks, and fan settings are identical.


Near the back of the card, you'll find various points for voltage measurements.


With Pascal, NVIDIA made some changes to how SLI works. In a nutshell, for 4K at 60 Hz and above, NVIDIA recommends new high-bandwidth SLI bridges it dubbed "SLI HB." These bridges occupy both SLI fingers. Traditional triple- and quad-SLI setups are gone as well. Only certain benchmarks can run more than the dual-SLI setup to which all games are limited.