GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0)
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Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.36 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.66 TFLOPS.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.30 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.34 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.800GHz.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) has a turbo clock of 1.355 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom is 1.304 GHz.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (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 90 °C.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 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 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom 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 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is 36 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom is 36 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) was released in Q4/2017.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Phantom published in Q4/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.