Product Teardown

Teardown

It is a request that is getting more and more daunting as we do not want to damage products. But user request on this is clear, you like a teardown and want to look to see what is going on at the PCB level. Opening up that trunk reveals the cooler. Nice to see are thermal padding everywhere and additional heatsinks in place at crucial segments. This also makes the card more sturdy, preventing it from bending. The backplate also reveals thermal pads covering VRM, helping cool down critical elements a bit. You'll notice that at that backside, for example, the GPU and GDDR6 IC locations are padded as well as part of the VRM. The GPU is fed by is 9-phases through a uPI uP9512R controller. coupled with DrMOS from Alpha and Omega. Memory gets two-phases running over a uPI uP1666Q controller. The GDDR6 chips themself register back as made by Samsung K4ZAF325BM-HC16, qualified and validated to run 16 Gbps. Interesting to see is that incredibly small PCB, that's a Mini ITX form factor at 17x17cm. You can also see two empty SMT traces for two more GDDR6 ICs. We take the photos with TIM still applied to the GPU, for the simple reason that you can observe how it's applied and spread out over the heat spreader.