A Closer Look

Palit is using a cooler with five heatpipes and a copper plate on their card.


The backplate is made out of metal and provides additional protection for the card. A thermal pad provides a little bit of cooling for the VRM circuitry on the other side of the PCB.


Palit has upgraded the power input to a 6-pin and an 8-pin, which is specified for 300 W of power draw.


Palit includes a dual-BIOS feature with their card. Both BIOSes on the card are identical.


Near the back of the card, you'll find various points for voltage measurements and solder spots for voltage tuning.


With Pascal, NVIDIA made some changes to how SLI works. In a nutshell, for 4K at 60 Hz and above, NVIDIA recommends new high-bandwidth SLI bridges it dubbed "SLI HB." These bridges occupy both SLI fingers. Traditional triple- and quad-SLI setups are gone as well. Only certain benchmarks can run more than the dual-SLI setup to which all games are limited.