GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G
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XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.20 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.19 TFLOPS.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.37 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.71 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G has a turbo clock of 1.199 GHz. The turbo frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB is 1.366 GHz.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 97 °C.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB 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 Radeon RX 560 OC 2G is 29 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB is 29 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 2G was released in Q2/2017.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 Double Dissipation 8GB published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.