A Closer Look

MSI's cooler uses four heatpipes to transport heat away quickly from the GPU core to a large number of fins where it is dissipated by the airflow of the two fans.


The card uses two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors. We have seen cards using a 6+8 configuration, but that is purely for marketing reasons.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung, and carry the model number K4G10325FE-HC04. They are specified to run at 2500 MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


uP6206 is an affordable voltage regulator, unfortunately it does not support the I2C interface, so software voltage control is not possible.


This is AMD's Cypress GPU, it comes with a whopping 2154 million transistors and is produced on a 40 nm process at TMSC Taiwan. The Cypress die size is 334 mm².