SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT
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EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT has 3840 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.57 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 39.39 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.38 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.65 TFLOPS.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 3 architecture, which has 60 streaming multiprocessors.

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

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.438 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT has a turbo clock of 2.565 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 is 1.380 GHz.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT 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 96 °C.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 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 98 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 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 7800 XT is 62 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 is 62 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 7800 XT was released in Q3/2023.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 published in Q1/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.