GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G
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Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.21 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.94 TFLOPS.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan has 1664 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.22 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.05 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ellesmere architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 13 execution units.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.650 GHz clocks.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has a turbo clock of 1.206 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan is 1.216 GHz.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G 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 93 °C.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan 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 Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_0.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan 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 Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G was released in Q3/2016.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Dual Fan published in Q3/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.