A Closer Look

Thanks to the low heat output of the GP107 GPU, a simple heatsink with two heatpipes is sufficient to keep the card cool.


Once the main cooler is removed, you can see a small secondary heatsink which provides cooling for the VRM circuitry.


The metal backplate provides extra cooling to the VRMs thanks to a little thermal pad.


Gigabyte upgraded the power input of their GTX 1050 Ti to a 6-pin. This input configuration is specified for up to 150 watts of power draw.


We have seen the NCP81174 on many graphics cards before; it's a reasonable alternative to the uP 9509 voltage controller that's used on other GTX 1050 Ti models.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung and carry the model number K4G80325FB-HC28. They are specified to run at 1750 MHz (7000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA's GP107 graphics processor is the company's first chip to use a 14 nanometer production process. It is also the company's first graphics processor to be made at Samsung and not TSMC. The GPU has a transistor count of 3.3 billion and a die size of 132 mm².