INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.42 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.81 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.80 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 9.20 TFLOPS.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.820 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS has a turbo clock of 1.418 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G is 1.797 GHz.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G 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 INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, INNO3D GeForce GTX 980 iCHILL HerculeZ X4 Air Boss DHS was released in Q1/2015.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.