A Closer Look

The cooler uses a large copper base and five heatpipes to transport heat quickly away from the GPU core.


Once we remove the main heatsink, we see a metal heatsink covering most of the card to provide cooling for memory and voltage regulation.


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.


For voltage control, the card uses a Richtek RT8802A, just like the NVIDIA reference design.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Hynix and carry the model number H5GQ2H24MFR-R0C. They are specified to run at 1500 MHz (6000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA's GK104 graphics processor introduced the company's brand-new Kepler architecture. It is NVIDIA's first chip to be produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. The transistor count is 3.54 billion.