A Closer Look

PowerColor is using a massive heatsink with five heatpipes that transport heat to the big fin array where it is dissipated.


A black metal heatspreader has been placed on the back which provides additional cooling for this completely passive card.


The card has a single 6-pin PCIe power connector. This configuration is good for up to 150 W of power draw.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Elpida, and carry the model number W1032BABG-50-F. They are specified to run at 1250MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


As voltage controller a uP6219 is used. We have seen this voltage regulator before on the PowerColor HD 5850 PCS+, it is a cost effective variant which does not provide software voltage control via I2C.


AMD's Barts graphics processor is made on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. It uses approximately 1.7 billion transistors on a die area of 255 mm².