PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5
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Palit GeForce GTX 980

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.58 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.26 TFLOPS.

The Palit GeForce GTX 980 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.22 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.98 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

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

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

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

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 has a turbo clock of 1.576 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Palit GeForce GTX 980 is 1.216 GHz.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 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 Palit GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with a 2 x 6-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 PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Palit GeForce GTX 980 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

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

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The Palit GeForce GTX 980 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 PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 is 57 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Palit GeForce GTX 980 is 57 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 was released in Q4/2018.

The Palit GeForce GTX 980 published in Q3/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.