GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G
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EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.27 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.83 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.34 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.75 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ellesmere architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G has a turbo clock of 1.266 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB is 1.342 GHz.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 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 100 °C.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB is equipped with a 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 Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_0.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB 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 480 WINDFORCE 4G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB 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 480 WINDFORCE 4G was released in Q2/2016.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC Gaming ACX 2.0+ 4GB published in Q1/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.