A Closer Look
Gigabyte's cooler uses a single heatpipe of double length that is in direct contact with the GPU core for as much heat transfer as possible.
A secondary heatsink cools the memory chips.
Power delivery requires a single 8-pin PCI-Express power connector. This configuration is specified for up to 225 W power draw.
Gigabyte is using an OnSemi NCP 81174 voltage controller, a model we've seen on other cards before.
The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung and carry the model number K4G41325FC-HC28. They are specified to run at 1750 MHz (7000 MHz GDDR5 effective).
NVIDIA's GM206 graphics processor is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, with a transistor count of 2.9 billion and a die size of 228 mm².