A Closer Look

NVIDIA's thermal solution looks very similar to that of the Titan X Pascal. The company has removed the DVI port on the 1080 Ti though, so there is more airflow available to cool the card.


As mentioned before, NVIDIA has updated their backplate design for Pascal to be thinner than ever, providing more airflow to the second card in an SLI configuration. Should you want to improve airflow even more, the backplate is now made up of two separately removable pieces, and you will not have to remove the main cooler. The pictures above show the removal of the backpiece. The backplate on top of the GPU has a thermal pad that covers the voltage controller.


The screws are the same special "NVIDIA" screws that can only be reliably removed with the proper tools.


NVIDIA is using a 6+8 power input configuration. With bus power, this setup is good for 300 W of power draw.


The uPI uP9511P is the same voltage controller as on the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070.


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, with a transistor count of 12 billion and a die size of 471 mm².