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The graphics card has been fitted with a Turing GPU based on 12nm FinFet architecture, and with almost 11 billion transistors, it has 2304 active shader/stream cores, 36 RT cores, and 288 Tensor cores. For those that wonder, the board is populated with GDDR6 memory from Micron. I already mentioned that there is no DVI connector.

Typically we'd review a STRIX for the launch review, however, NVIDIA demanded that all cards shipped for review in the launch wave match the 499 USD price tag. Ergo, the looks and feel of this product are a bit more basic.

  
The card has a ~175 Watt rated TDP, 75 Watts is delivered through the PCIe slot, then 1x150 and 1x75W Watts feed in through the 6 and 8-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) power connectors.

Above you can see the backside, hey now, not at all covered with a backplate. Looking at it, i slowly start to understand the aesthetic reasoning behind backplates.