A Closer Look

Palit's cooler uses a copper base to cool the card efficiently. It also cools secondary components like voltage regulation circuitry and memory chips.


This area on the PCB suggests that you can use it to monitor the voltage, and easily apply a voltmod. I asked Palit for additional information.


The card requires one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI-Express power cable for operation. This power configuration is good for up to 300 W of power draw.


Palit uses the same OnSemi NCP4206 voltage controller on the GTX 770 as on the GTX 780 and Titan. It is a cost-effective solution that does not provide any I2C, so advanced monitoring is not possible.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung and carry the model number K4G20325FD-FC28. They are specified to run at 1750 MHz (7000 MHz GDDR5 effective). Please note that this is the first time that 7 Gbps GDDR5 chips are used on a graphics card.


NVIDIA's GK104 graphics processor introduced the company's brand-new 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.