GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 has 1920 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.68 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.46 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 15 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WINDFORCE 3X OC Rev. 2.0 has a turbo clock of 1.304 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is 1.683 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.