A Closer Look

MSI's thermal solution uses six heatpipes to keep the GPU cool.


Once the main heatsink is removed, you will see two black heatsinks that cover the memory chips and voltage regulation circuitry.


MSI has upgraded the power input of their GTX 1080 to an 8-pin and a 6-pin. This input configuration is specified for up to 300 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.