ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB
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Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.24 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.54 TFLOPS.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB has a turbo clock of 1.240 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual is 1.733 GHz.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB 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 98 °C.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual 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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB was released in Q1/2015.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.