The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.
Memory
Memory
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.753 GHz
1.500 GHz
Memory Speed
7.0 Gbps
6.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
96 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
128 bit
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The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.
The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
Base Clock
1.304 GHz
1.019 GHz
Boost Clock
1.418 GHz
1.071 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled has a turbo clock of 1.418 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is 1.071 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
TDP
165 W
60 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
80 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 8-Pin
--
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The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled has 2 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 ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is equipped with a -- PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 80 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
Fan-Type
--
Axial
Fan 1
--
1 x 80 mm
Cooler-Type
Water cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
--
Noise (Load)
0 dB
--
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled are cooled with a Water cooling.
The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.2
1x DP 1.4
DVI
1
1
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The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
Max. resolution
4096x2160
5120x2880
DirectX
12_1
12
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
No
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
No
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
No
Decode
AV1
No
No
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
Length
308 mm
192 mm
Height
129 mm
115 mm
Width
--
39 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
Additional data
Additional data
KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
GPU Interface
PCIe 3 x 16
PCIe 3.0 x 8
Release date
Q3/2014
Q1/2021
Launch Price
649 $
79 $
Structure size
28 nm
14 nm
Part-no
98NQH6DNF1WT
PH-RX550-2G
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Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled was released in Q3/2014.
The ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB published in Q1/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.
The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.
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