A Closer Look

MSI's heatsink uses five heatpipes to keep the card cool. As mentioned before, this is the same cooler that we have seen on other cards from MSI before.


The card requires two 6-pin PCI-Express power cables connected. This power configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw.


Near the top edge of the PCB, MSI has placed a little switch that selects two BIOSes. One BIOS is for normal usage and the other enables a low noise fan profile, with the same clock speeds.


The voltage regulator used is a uPi uP1981, a

The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung, and carry the model number K4G10325FG-HC04. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA uses their GF110 graphics processor on the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores. This is the same GPU that's used on the GTX 580 and GTX 570, just in a configuration with reduced shader count. The GPU is made on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. It uses the same architecture as NVIDIA's GF100 but with improvements on the transistor level to reduce power consumption.