Product Innards

Product Innards

 
The cooling solution is a simple but proper one. The cooler uses six bent and shaped heat-pipes that pass through a heatsink, with thermal paste tied to the all-copper block. You can also see that the memory area has padding as well as the phase chokes and thus is cooled by this block. 
  

 
Zotac did apply padding on top of the GDDR5X, the VRM area has a heatsink (the black one). With the main cooler removed, you can see a cute PCB and its components. To the top right the two 8-pin power headers adding up towards 375 Watt for board power.
 

  
Here we have the GP102 graphics processor from Nvidia covered with thermal interface material.
  

The Nvidia GP102 graphics processor is made based on Pascal architecture at a 16 nm process at TSMC. This bad boy has a transistor count of 12 billion and do not underestimate the die size, that is 471 mm² you are looking at.
 

 
The GDDR5X memory chips are made by Micron and are specced to run at 11,000 MHz GDDR5 (effective data-rate). Tweaked, you are looking at a capability of roughly 12000 MHz (effective data-rate). These are Micron 6ZA77 - D9VRL. 
  

 
A uPI based uP9511P is a rather recent and much used model voltage controller for many NVIDIA GP102 and 104 GPU based cards. This uP9511 is an 8 phase buck controller regulator and thus allows for selectable 8/7/6/5/4/3/2/1 phases hence the board is not really using 16 phases for the GPU, it is 8 doubled up. 

 
And yes, that empty SMT trace is missing the one GDDR5X chip, for this 12 11 GB graphics card. Now you know what is on the inside.