A Closer Look

In the cooler, a copper baseplate is connected to four heatsinks that transport heat away from the hot GPU surface to the heatsink fins.


Two six-pin power connectors can be found near the back of the card. Combined with the power delivered via PCI-Express slot, this input configuration is good for up to 225 W power draw.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Elpida, and carry the model number W1032BABG-50-F. They are specified to run at 1250MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


As voltage controller a CHiL 8214 is used which we have seen on other HD 6800 and HD 6900 designs before. It offers support for voltage control via I2C and has some monitoring features, too.


AMD's Barts graphics processor is made on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. It uses approximately 1.7 billion transistors on a die area of 255 mm².