A Closer Look

Zotac's thermal solution uses four heatpipes to keep the GPU cool. You can also see various thermal pads here, which provide cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card during installation and handling.


Zotac is using a single 8-pin power connector. This input configuration is specified for up to 225 watts of power draw.


The uPI uP9511P is the same voltage controller as on the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070.


The GDDR5X memory chips are made by Micron and are marked with "D9TXS," which decodes to MT58K256M32JA-100. These are specified to run at 1250 MHz (10,000 MHz GDDR5X effective).


NVIDIA's GP104 graphics processor is the first consumer chip using the Pascal architecture. It is produced on a 16 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, and has a transistor count of 7.1 billion and a die size of 314 mm².