A Closer Look

Palit's thermal solution uses five heatpipes and a copper core. You can also see grey thermal pads that cool the memory chips and voltage regulation circuitry.


The backplate is made from metal and shows a white-printed GameRock logo.


Palit has included a dual-BIOS feature on their card. The BIOSes being identical, one acts as a safety measure against a failed BIOS flash.


Palit has also included solder OC tweaking and measurement points.


The power input of the card has been upgraded to an 8-pin and a 6-pin. This input configuration is specified for up to 300 watts of power draw.


NVIDIA's Pascal is introducing a new voltage controller by uPI, the uP 9511P. Its exact feature set is currently unknown.


The GDDR5X memory chips are made by Micron and are marked with "D9TXS," which decodes to MT58K256M32JA-100. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (10,000 MHz GDDR5X effective).


NVIDIA's GP104 graphics processor is the first consumer chip using the Pascal architecture. It is produced on a 16 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, with a transistor count of 7.1 billion and a die size of 314 mm².