Starting from the card’s size: the length seems to be similar to those that can be found on the GeForce GTX 200 currently present on the market, and that shouldn’t pose any problems in the installation on most part of the cases in the market. In this sense, nVIDIA has decided to keep a certain standard instead of following ATI’s steps that brought better performing cards with their HD 5800 series, but longer and occupying more space.

The design also sees a heatsink that occupies two slots, covering the entire PCB and leaving the backside uncovered. The uncovered area has no meaningful components such as memory modules. The 384-bit bandwidth requires 12 GDDR5 memory models, each one of them connected to the memory controller with 32bit bus.