A Closer Look

The dual-fan cooler uses a large base that is connected to four heatpipes keeping the card cool. Memory chips are not cooled.


The card requires two 6-pin PCI-Express power cables for operation. This power configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw.


The card uses an OnSemi NCP5392 voltage controller, which is different to the Richtek controller on the reference design. The controller does not offer any software voltage control, other than what NVIDIA's driver exposes.


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


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