GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0)
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EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) has 1920 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.68 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.45 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.34 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.50 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 30 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) has a turbo clock of 1.680 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming is 1.342 GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 88 °C.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming is equipped with a 2 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 RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming 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 RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 WINDFORCE 6G (rev. 2.0) was released in Q2/2019.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC Gaming published in Q3/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.