Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2013-06-03
With the coming of the GTX Titan derivation named GTX 780, we have very good performances available at a lower price point. Gigabyte is one of the companies which offer a highly overclocked variant and a custom, compact cooling system which is enough silent when the card is placed in a well ventilated computer case.
Near the On Semi controller and the 8-pin+6-pin ATX power connectors we can find the INA 3221 power sensor from Texas Instruments, which was also found on the Titan cards:
The GK110 graphics processor (561 mm2) is quite huge and it houses 7.1 billion transistors on-die; it was manufactured on a 28nm process at TSMC:
By looking at the bottom side of the cooling system, we can see the separate VRM cooling area, but also the large plate with thermal pads for the memory chips:
The central copper plate makes direct contact with the GPU die and the manufacturer has used quite a big amount of thermal compound:
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