GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1
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MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.33 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.72 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC has 2816 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.19 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.70 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 has a turbo clock of 1.329 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC is 1.190 GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 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 MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X 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 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Rev. 1.1 was released in Q2/2015.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Armor 2X OC published in Q3/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.