A Closer Look

Gigabyte's thermal solution uses three heatpipes that make direct contact with the GPU's surface, something the company pioneered with their GTX 950/960 Xtreme Gaming. You can also see white thermal pads that provide cooling for the VRM circuitry and memory chips.


The metal backplate is solid and comes with two thermal pads that provide a little bit of extra cooling for the VRM components on this side of the PCB.


Gigabyte sticks to the reference 8-pin connector. This input configuration is specified for up to 225 watts of power draw.


NVIDIA's Pascal is introducing a new voltage controller by uPI, the uP 9511P. Its exact feature set is currently unknown.


The GDDR5X memory chips are made by Micron and are marked with "D9TXS," which decodes to MT58K256M32JA-100. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (10,000 MHz GDDR5X effective).


NVIDIA's GP104 graphics processor is the first consumer chip using 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.