ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
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GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black has 1664 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.18 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 3.92 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G has 896 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.21 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.17 TFLOPS.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 13 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G is based on the Baffin architecture and is equipped with 14 execution units.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G is 1.212 GHz.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black was released in Q3/2014.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.