Galaxy to Release Single Slot GTX 680
The GTX 680 is currently the worlds fastest single GPU graphics card, therefore, it’s not surprising that it comes with a double slot cooler, so losing a motherboard expansion slot is an accepted fact of life. However, it looks like Galaxy are attempting the “impossible” and that’s to cool such a powerful GPU with a single slot cooler!
Galaxy’s upcoming card is apparently called “GeForce GTX 680 Warriors’ Edition” and features just such a single slot cooler. It can do this, because the efficient 28nm Kepler GK104 GPU used in the GTX 680 has a TDP of 195W which is manageable and therefore an efficient phase change single slot cooler will be sufficient for it. There’s no word on pricing yet.
The cooler follows the same design principle at work in coolers of GeForce 8800 GT and Radeon HD 4850, that of a compact lateral-flow fan guiding air through a dense network of copper channels, where heat is dissipated to the air. These copper channels draw heat from a copper plate (probably vapor-chamber, in Galaxy’s case), which makes contact with all hot components on the PCB, including the GPU, memory chips, and VRM. Hot air is guided out, from the top of the card.
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