A Closer Look

Gigabyte's thermal solution uses four heatpipes to keep the GPU cool. This is a change compared to the GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming with six heatpipes.


The backplate has thermal pads for a little bit of cooling for the VRM circuitry.


Gigabyte upgraded the power input of their GTX 1070 to an 8-pin and a 6-pin. This input configuration is specified for up to 300 watts of power draw.


The uP 9511 voltage controller is a new model for recent NVIDIA cards. It does not support voltage control via I2C.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung and carry the model number K4G80325FB-HC25. They are specified to run at 2000 MHz (8000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA's GP104 graphics processor is the first consumer chip to use the Pascal architecture. It is produced on a 16 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, with a transistor count of 7.1 billion and a die size of 314 mm².