A Closer Look

ZOTAC's cooler uses three heatpipes and a copper base to keep the card cool. Also, notice the thermal pads on the back of the cooler that cool the memory chips and voltage regulation circuitry.


The card requires two 6-pin PCI-Express power cables connected. This power configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw.


The voltage regulator is an OnSemi NCP5382, which we have seem on other cards before. It does the job fine, offering software voltage control via NVIDIA NVAPI.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung, and carry the model number K4G10325FG-HC04. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA uses their GF110 graphics processor on the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores. This is the same GPU that's used on the GTX 580 and GTX 570, just in a configuration with reduced shader count. The GPU is made on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. It uses the same architecture as NVIDIA's GF100 but with improvements on the transistor level to reduce power consumption.