A Closer Look

Zotac's enormous cooler uses six heatpipes to keep the card cool. It also cools the memory chips.


Once the main heatsink is removed, you can see two additional heatsinks which sit over the voltage regulation circuitry. Note here how nicely the backplate wraps around the card.


The backplate is made from metal to protect the card against damage during installation and handling.


Zotac upgraded the power input configuration of the AMP! Extreme to dual 8-pins. This input configuration is specified for up to 375 watts of power draw.


With Pascal, NVIDIA made some changes to how SLI works. In a nutshell, for 4K at 60 Hz and above, NVIDIA recommends new high-bandwidth SLI bridges it dubbed "SLI HB." These bridges occupy both SLI fingers. Traditional triple- and quad-SLI setups are gone as well. Only certain benchmarks can run more than the dual-SLI setup to which all games are limited.