Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.34 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.88 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 has 1664 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.18 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 3.92 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 13 execution units.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 has a turbo clock of 1.340 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is 1.178 GHz.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 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 90 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 is 43 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is 43 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 was released in Q3/2017.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 published in Q3/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.