Product Innards

Product Innards

The GALAX/KFA2 cooling solution is a simple one but works well. One bit heatsink and with thermal paste tied to the block. You can also see that the VRM area has thermal padding and thus is passively cooled. One heat pipe, U shaped.
  

With the main cooler is removed, you can see an all shiny white PCB and its components that make up for the products that are called GTX 1050 Ti EXOC edition. 

The backside of the card as well reveals a very simple and elegant design. But let's zoom in a bit at all the primary components.

 
Here we have the GP107-400-A1 graphics processor from Nvidia. The GTX 1050 Ti is featuring 768 shader cores. The GPU die is made from a 14nm fab process with a transistor count of 3.3 billion and a die size of 132 mm². Little more needs to be said about it.

GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung and are specced to run at 1752 MHz (7008 MHz GDDR5 effective). As you'll learn in our overclock segment, they can be clocked close to 8000 MHz, which greatly helps this card with some additional as the 1050 Ti is memory bandwidth deprived.
  

Three power phases for the GPU and one for the memory subsystem.

Right, I was looking and looking and could not find it, turn around the board and yeah there it is. The uPI based uP9509P is a recent model voltage controller for NVIDIA cards. 

Closeby to it is another uP1909R phase controller from UPI is spotted as well, likely for memory, I'm not 100% sure though as I cannot find any info on this part.