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The graphics card has been fitted with a Turing GPU based on 12nm FinFet architecture, and with 18.6 billion transistors, it has 4352 active shader/stream cores, 68 RT cores, and 544 Tensor cores. This card has 11GB of GDDR6. For those that wonder, the board is populated with GDDR6 memory from Micron. I already mentioned that there is no DVI connector. Above you can see the backside, covered with a backplate, unfortunately, a closed one. You'll notice something at the rear end.

Basically, MSI added cooling capacity to cool the beast, however, the surface radiator area extends over the actual PCB. Since it would look weird to extend the backplate or to leave the PCB uncovered, they design a cap. I think that's a charming way to tackle a challenge. That looks fine to me.

You won't hear the fan noise in low-load situations as the fans do not spin when they are not needed (up-to roughly 60 Degrees C), once it reaches that temperatures the three fans will kick in, but they remain at merely an acoustic level of 38 DBa, which quite honestly is considered to be a normal towards silent level. 

  
The card has a 260~275 Watt rated TDP, 75 Watts is delivered through the PCIe slot, then 2x150 Watts feed in through the 8-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) power connectors. The middle DUKE logo is RGB lit and configurable.