EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+
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Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ has 2816 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.08 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.06 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.56 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.19 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.100GHz.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ has a turbo clock of 1.076 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 is 1.560 GHz.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 91 °C.

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-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 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GAMING ACX 2.0+ was released in Q2/2015.

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 published in Q4/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.