A Closer Look

The Palit heatsink uses five heatpipes and a copper baseplate to keep the GPU cool. This heatsink also cools the voltage regulation circuitry.


Using a large thermal pad, the backplate makes contact with the PCB near the voltage regulation circuitry, which has the backplate contribute toward reducing VRM temperatures.


Near the back of the card, Palit placed some points to attach voltage-measurement and tuning equipment. You can also remove resistors here that control OCP and OVP.


Power delivery requires a 6-pin and 8-pin PCI-Express power connector. This configuration is specified for up to 300 W power draw.


Palit is using the same NCP8114 voltage controller as the GTX 980 Ti reference design. The controller has no support for I2C, so there is no advanced monitoring, but VID-based voltages can be monitored and controlled through NVIDIA's driver.


The GDDR5 memory chips are by Hynix and carry the model number H5GQ4H24MFR-R2C. They are specified to run at 1750 MHz (7000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA's GM200 graphics processor is the company's new flagship GPU. It is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, with a transistor count of 8.0 billion and a die-size of 601 mm².