Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme
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ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.39 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.70 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.32 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.69 TFLOPS.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.800 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme has a turbo clock of 1.393 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB is 1.317 GHz.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme 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 98 °C.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB is equipped with a 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 Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB 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 980 AMP! Extreme is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme was released in Q3/2014.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 DC2 Black Edition OC 4GB published in Q4/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.