SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2
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MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G

The SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 has 512 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.18 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.21 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.32 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.39 TFLOPS.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

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

The SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 has a turbo clock of 1.183 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G is 1.317 GHz.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 80 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G 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 SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G 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 PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 is 28 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G is 28 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 550 4G G5 V2 was released in Q4/2017.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 GAMING 4G published in Q3/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.