PCB Analysis

MSI is using the same PCB and VRM design as on the MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X, with eight phases for the GPU and two phases for the memory.


The NCP81274 voltage controller handles GPU voltage. It is running in eight-phases mode.


The two-phase memory VRM is powered by a uP1658.


The GDDR5X memory chips are made by Micron and are marked with "D9VRL", which decodes to MT58K256M321JA-110. They are specified to run at 1375 MHz (11,000 MHz GDDR5X effective).


NVIDIA's GP102 graphics processor is the company's second-largest chip using the Pascal architecture. It is produced on a 16 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan and has a transistor count of 12 billion and a die size of 471 mm².