A Closer Look

NVIDIA's cooler is relatively simple; it only uses a copper base without heatpipes to keep the card cool.


Voltage regulation circuitry is cooled by an additional, compact metal heatsink.


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


The card uses an NCP5392 voltage controller, which is a simple and cost-effective design, but does not come with I2C, so software voltage control or monitoring is not possible.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Hynix and carry the model number H5GQ2H24AFR-R0C. They are specified to run at 1500 MHz (6000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA's GK104 graphics processor introduced the company's Kepler architecture. Manufactured at TSMC in Taiwan, it is NVIDIA's first chip to be produced on a 28 nm process. The transistor count is 3.54 billion.