GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.30 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.34 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC has 1664 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.28 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.25 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 13 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 has a turbo clock of 1.304 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC is 1.278 GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 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 98 °C.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC 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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X 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 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 is 35 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC is 35 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 was released in Q3/2015.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WINDFORCE 3X OC published in Q3/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.