ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC
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GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC has 1664 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.25 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.17 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.86 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.77 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.

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

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC has a turbo clock of 1.253 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G is 1.860 GHz.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC has 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 AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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 Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC was released in Q3/2014.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.