A Closer Look

The MSI cooler uses two heatpipes that make direct contact with the GPU surface, which is different from the cooler on MSI's GTX 960 Gaming since it uses a three-heatpipe cooler with a baseplate instead.


A secondary heatsink cools the VRM circuitry.


Power delivery requires a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector. This configuration is specified for up to 150 W power draw.


MSI is using a uPI uP1608 as the voltage controller, a model we've seen on some GTX 750 and GTX 960 variants before.


The GDDR5 memory chips are by Samsung and carry the model number K4G41325FC-HC28. They are specified to run at 1750 MHz (7000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA's GM206 graphics processor is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, with a transistor count of 2.9 billion and a die size of 228 mm².