MSI GeForce GTX 980
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.22 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.98 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.80 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.60 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.938GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 has a turbo clock of 1.216 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is 1.800 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 has 2 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition 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 88 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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 MSI GeForce GTX 980 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 980 was released in Q3/2014.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.