We took a GeForce GTX 280 card apart to let viewers take a good look at what's underneath that mammoth cooling unit.

The bare card itself reminds us of the legendary G80 card design, while the rear I/O plate and the cooling unit (not pictured here) is a mix of the current GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and GeForce 9800 GTX designs.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1GB bare.

Pictured here is the GT200 core.

This card is power-hungry, just like the GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB which also requires 6-pin and 8-pin (one each) PCI-E connectors.

The rear of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1GB.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1GB has 16 memory chips to make up a total of 1GB video memory, running on a 512-bit bus. Eight memory chips are on the front, while the other eight are located at the back.