This Zone Edition card features a passive cooler — a finned heatsink that covers the card almost entirely.

The core is cooled down by a massive heatsink with a large, slow fan in the middle. Memory chips are not cooled. The plastic cover is entirely decorative. Thanks to the quality fan, the cooler is almost noiseless.

This one resembles the previous, but is boosted significantly. There's also a heatsink with a similar fan, but it all on a copper base plate and has a 'tail' that goes along the cover. The latter, aside from design purposes, supports the 'tail'. This cooler is nearly noiseless as well.

Although this cooler resembles that of GeForce GTX 480, there are no heatpipes, and the cooler is actually quite different. First of all, it bases on a vaporizing chamber encased in a narrow copper compartment adjoining the GPU. Above the chamber are heatsink fins through which air is driven by the fan located on the end of the card.

According to tests, this cooler is more efficient that the older one based on heatpipes. Liquid inside the vaporizing chamber transfers heat from the bottom to the top plate almost instantly. But even more important is that fan speed is adjusted smoothly depending on temperature. Aside from providing better cooling efficiency, this makes the cooler almost noiseless (especially under low load), unlike that of GeForce GTX 480.