A Closer Look

The cooler on the PCS+ uses two doubled up heatpipes which transport heat quickly to the two fin arrays.


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


PowerColor uses a CHL8228 voltage controller on their card, which is a great choice. The controller supports software voltage control and offer a good set of monitoring options.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Hynix, and carry the model number H5GQ2H24MFR-T2C. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


AMD's new Pitcairn graphics processor completes the AMD 28 nm GPU stack. It is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC, with a transistor count of 2.8 billion.