A Closer Look

The heatsink uses six heatpipes and a large copper baseplate to keep the GPU cool. You can also see the thermal pads that cool memory chips and voltage regulation circuitry.


The metal backplate also has a thermal pad that makes contact with the VRM circuitry on the card's backside for a little bit of cooling.


Power delivery requires two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. This configuration is specified for up to 375 W power draw.


You will find another 6-pin power input near the back of the card, next to a switch that enables LN2 mode. It is completely optional and is only used in LN2 mode, which makes it irrelevant to most users.


Gigabyte is using the uPI uP1984A voltage controller. It's the first time I see this model, so I don't know what features it provides.


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 GM200 graphics processor is the company's flagship GPU. It is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, with a transistor count of 8.0 billion and a die size of 601 mm².