GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X
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MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X has 768 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.25 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.93 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.24 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.54 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 6 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.653 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X has a turbo clock of 1.253 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC is 1.241 GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 95 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC 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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC 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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X is 36 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC is 36 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 WINDFORCE 2X was released in Q2/2015.

The MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GD5T OC published in Q3/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.