GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING
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GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0)

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.37 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.60 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) has 896 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.20 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.15 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 14 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.775 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING has a turbo clock of 1.367 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is 1.199 GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING 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 Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) 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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING was released in Q3/2014.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.