NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.73 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.35 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.55 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

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

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is 1.354 GHz.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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 94 °C.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is equipped with a 2 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is cooled by a AIO water cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 was released in Q2/2016.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING published in Q3/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.