Packaging
The Card
EVGA's card looks very similar visually to the company's other Turing cards. A backplate is not included.
Dimensions of the card are 26 x 11.5 cm.
Installation requires two slots in your system.
Display connectivity options include three standard DisplayPort 1.4a and an HDMI 2.0b.
The board uses one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector. This input configuration is specified for up to 375 watts of power draw.
With Turing, NVIDIA is using NVLink as a physical layer for its next-generation SLI technology. NVLink provides sufficient bandwidth for multi-GPU rendering at 8K 60 Hz, 4K 120 Hz, and other such bandwidth-heavy display resolutions. It's a point-to-point link between your GPUs, so latencies will be lower compared to pushing data through the PCI-Express bus.
Disassembly
EVGA is using six heatpipes on their thermal solution, which is paired with a copper base to maximize heat transfer. This piece of the cooler also provides cooling for parts of the VRM circuitry.
Once the main heatsink is removed, a second metal plate becomes visible, which provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.