EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX has 1664 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.32 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.20 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.46 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 13 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX has a turbo clock of 1.317 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is 1.203 GHz.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX has 2 x 6-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 GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 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 EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming ACX was released in Q3/2014.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WINDFORCE 2X Rev. 1.0 published in Q3/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.