A Closer Look

Zotac's thermal solution is really simple, just a slab of metal that sits on the GPU core.


With the main cooler is removed, you can see a small secondary heatsink which provides cooling for the VRM circuitry.


Zotac has kept the single 6-pin power input of the reference design.This power configuration is good for up to 150 W of power draw.


The uP 9511 voltage controller is a new model for recent NVIDIA cards. It does not support voltage control via I2C.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung and carry the model number K4G41325FE-HC25. They are specified to run at 2000 MHz (8000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA's GP106 graphics processor is the second consumer chip using the Pascal architecture. It is produced on a 16 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, and has a transistor count of 4.4 billion and a die size of 200 mm².