A Closer Look

The heatsink is a complex piece of engineering, it uses a copper baseplate to transfer heat away from the GPU efficiently. As you can see from the white thermal pads, the memory chips and voltage regulation circuitry is cooled as well.


You may combine two or three of these cards in SLI for increased performance or better image quality.


The card has two six-pin power connectors. Both are required for operation.


The GDDR3 memory chips are made by Hynix and carry the model number H5RS5223CFR-N0C. With a latency of 1.0 ns, they should be good for at least 1000 MHz.


The graphics processor in use is the same NVIDIA GT200 as on all other GTX 260/280 cards. The GPU has a die size of 576 mm², is made in a 65 nm process and sports 1.4 billion transistors.