Gaming has become the major part of our lives as we all play games in all platforms no matter they are kid, of middle age or older one. Graphic Card is one of the major components of the computer to which 44% of world’s online gaming communities consider most about. Gaming is the first thought that strikes into human mind when it comes to graphic cards but the truth is that they are not just limited to the gaming itself it is used in much more things.
Peoples like Animators, Designers, Editors, movie makers and to accomplish several other jobs. Coming back to the topic of top 10 graphic cards we have judged them on the basis of their performance, compatibility and reviews they got after their launch from their customers.
Peoples like Animators, Designers, Editors, movie makers and to accomplish several other jobs. Coming back to the topic of top 10 graphic cards we have judged them on the basis of their performance, compatibility and reviews they got after their launch from their customers.
1. NVIDIA GTX 980
In it’s recent launch NVIDIA revealed world’s most advanced graphic card GeForce GTX 980 with a new sensational technology knows as Maxwell Architecture. With an improved technology company has promissed that this card is better in all ways as the card has 30% better memory performance than GeForce GTX 680, Ultra HD resolutions and better picture stabilization and reduced power consumption to 165 Watts. And will also support on Virtual Reality headsets like Oculus Rift.
Specifications
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NVIDIA GTX 980
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Memory
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4GB GDDR5 @1.75GHz (7GHz Effectively)
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Interface
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256
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Bandwidth
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224Gbps
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Transistors
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5.2 Billion
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Basic Clock Speed
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1,126MHz
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Boost Clock Speed
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1,216MHz
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Stream Processors
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2,048
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Render Output Unit (RPO’s)
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64
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The card has Dual SLI’s Finger upto Quad SLI support with 16*PCIe 3.0 Connector. But now NVIDIA is putting 2 x 6 Pins Power Connectors instead of single 6 Pin connector. With that company offers 3 x Full Display Ports 1.2 connectors all of which support G-Sync with single HDMI 2.0 Port which provides 4K gaming experience at 60FPS and 21:9 ratio Monitors and also a single DVI-I Dual Link Port.
2. NVIDIA GeForce TITAN Z
Titan comes with Dual GPU installed in it one in right and other in left each of 6GB GDDR5 that makes 12GB GDDR5 in total which makes it one of the most powerful graphic card available on this planet. It can handle everything you through at it. It is loved by those who love to put heavy load on their graphic card like as peoples who connect multiple windows at same time and process different tasks in different screens like as playing heavy games, texturing 3D animating, rendering, editing and other things that puts lot of load on your graphic card can be done with titan without any trouble. You can attach three to four cards in your motherboard depending upon your budget and rigs of the computer as this single card itself cost much approximately $3000 per card. It comes in two configurations one in 6GB (costs $1000 bugs) and other in 12GB.
Specifications
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NVIDIA GeForce TITAN Z
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Memory
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12GB GDDR5 and 6GB GDDR5
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CUDA Cores
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5760
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Interface
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768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
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Bandwidth
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672
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Transistors
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2*7.1 Billion
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Basic Clock Speed (MHz)
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705 per core
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Boost Clock Speed (MHz)
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876 per core
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Render Output Unit (RPO’s)
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96
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Memory Speed (MHz)
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1750
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Memory Bandwidth
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336 Gbps (672 Gbps)
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GPU Power Consumption
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~460 Watts
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3. AMD Radeon R9 270X
R9 270x is the mid range graphic card made by AMD Radeon series specially for the game enthusiastic who can’t effort high end gaming cards but still want to continue with the gaming in better quality but low price range. While comparing to it’s previous model R9 270 it is 10% more powerful than that but some gamers believe that increase in 10-20% is a minor change in low and graphic card when we are comparing it with same series of previous model as that almost doesn’t count but we all have heard that it is good to have something than nothing as from a point of gamers who can’t effort high end cards they this change of 10% do makes a lot of difference. Thew card worths $200 in international market.
Specifications
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AMD Radeon R9 270X
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Memory
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2GB GDDR5
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Basic Clock Speed (MHz)
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1000
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Boost Clock Speed (MHz)
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1050
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Memory Clock (MHz) (Effective)
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1400-5600
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Render Output Unit (RPO’s)
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32
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Standard Units
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1280
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Ports and Connections
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Power Connector = 2*6 Pin
TDP = 180 Watt
Output = 2* DVI
1*HDMI
1*Display Port
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4. AMD Radeon HD 7990
The card was launched in early 2013 to compete GTX 690 but appeared little late in market with packing two Radeon HD 7970 GPUs on a single printed circuit board (PCB)which was already done by NVIDIA in it’s two cards TITAN and GTX 690 also by ASUS and Power Color. Comparing to other it was not a great success but was fine of it’s kind. Talking about the performance it does a real good job with optimised settings depending upon the games you play.
Specifications
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AMD Radeon HD 7990
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Memory
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6GB GDDR5
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CUDA Cores
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2 x 2048
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Graphic Processor
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2 x Tahiti
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Clock Speed (MHz)
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1000
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Render Output Unit (RPO’s)
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64
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Memory Speed (MHz)
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1375 - 1500
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Memory Bandwidth
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2 x 384-bit
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Price
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$900
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5. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
GTX 780 Ti was a great success for NVIDIA before the launch of GTX 900 series as it was the most demanding and reliable series of NVIDIA which helped them achieve win back the trophy from AMD. Over all GTX 780 Ti was better then GTX 780 and TITAN in many prospective and proved to be a better deal among them.
Specifications
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
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Memory
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3GB GDDR5 @7000 MHz (Effective)
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CUDA Cores
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2,880
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Interface
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384-bit
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Bandwidth
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336 Gbps
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Basic Clock Speed (MHz)
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875
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Boost Clock Speed (MHz)
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928
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Render Output Unit (RPO’s)
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6. AMD Radeon R9 295x2
AMD here come with the biggest deal of all time by multiplying the amount of GPU’s in a single PCB or can say by shrinking the power of two in one PCB. Yes, this do increase amount of heat generated but AMD has taken a good care of that by mounting two liquid cooling fan on the card itself. It runs on Ultra settings in 4K or more upto 2 million pixels by connecting five 4K displays in an AMD Eyefinity technology setup to get a better experience. It is the most powerful GPU AMD has ever sold.
Specifications
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AMD Radeon R9 295x2
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Memory
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8 GB GDDR5 @5.0 GHz (Effective)
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CUDA Cores
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2 x 2816
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Bandwidth
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2 x 512-bit
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Basic Clock Speed (MHz)
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1.0 GHz
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Boost Clock Speed (MHz)
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1.018 GHz
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Render Output Unit (RPO’s)
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2 x 64
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Texture Unit
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2 x 176
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7. AMD Radeon R9 290x
Based on Graphic Core Next (GCN) architecture Radeon R9 290x was an answer from AMD to one of the major lead of NVIDIA but it failed to give straight competition to GTX TITAN Z but reached near GTX 780 Ti which was second most powerful weapon from NVIDIA. In comparison to strength and performance it showed up and also in price prospective R9 290x took lead from Titan as well as GTX 780 Ti. With AMD’s TrueAudio technology and ultra-resolution gaming this card got a real good response and still on consumer’s choice. It is capable of giving true 4K gaming experience to the user.
Memory
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4GB GDDR5
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CUDA Cores
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2,816
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Texture Units
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176
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Render Output Unit (RPO’s)
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64
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Memory Interface
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512-bit
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Memory Bandwidth
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320 Gbps
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8. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Based on their new Maxwell Architecture NVIDIA launched GeForce GTX 970 with Geforce GTX 980. The card can support Ultra HD resolutions and improved picture stabilization and reduced power consumption and also supports Virtual Reality headsets like Oculus Rift like as GTX 980.
Specifications
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NVIDIA GTX 970
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Memory
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4GB GDDR5 @1.75GHz (7.0 GHz Effectively)
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CUDA Cores
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1,664
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Interface
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256-bit
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Bandwidth
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224 Gbps
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Transistors
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5.2 Billion
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Basic Clock Speed
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1,050MHz
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Boost Clock Speed
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1,178MHz
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Stream Processors
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1,664
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Render Output Unit (RPO’s)
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64
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9. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
Based on GK104 GPU GTX 770 was the upgrade of GeForce GTX 670. With an increase in 10% GPU and 15% cores form GTX 670 with an same price point this was a nice deal for the peoles who were looking for an upgrate at same price point. The card was quite identical to it’s last launch GTX 680 but was having a plus point in memory speed which was increased to 224 Gbps.
Specifications
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NVIDIA GTX 770
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Memory
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4GB GDDR5 @1.75GHz (7.0 GHz Effectively)
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CUDA Cores
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1,536
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Interface
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256-bit
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Bandwidth
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224.36 Gbps
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Texture Fill
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134
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Basic Clock Speed
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1,046MHz
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Boost Clock Speed
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1,085MHz
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Stream Processors
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1,664
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10. AMD Radeon R9 285
In addition to all of the above mentioned graphic card if you are the person who is not yet ready to jump on to the high end graphic card but still want the best output by spending an average amount then looks like you got AMD watching your back. AMD is well known for it’s performance and lower budget cards. And also comes with Like as AMD Radeon R9 285 is an mid range graphic card which costs $250 (approx) and gives an similar performance to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760. Yes we agree to the point that you can get GeForce GTX 760 in $200 at some sites or equal but AMD promises to give 26% better performance than GTX 760 at 1440 Pixels that is (2560x1440 pixels) monitor according to the most recent hardware survey conducted by different other websites. Comparing both of them:
Specifications
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
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AMD Radeon R9 285
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CUDA/Stream Processors
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1,152
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1,792
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Engine Clock (MHz)
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980 (Basic) upto 1033 (Boost)
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918
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Texture Fill Rate (Billion/sec)
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94.1
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102.8 with 112 units
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Memory configuration
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2GB GDDR5
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2GB GDDR5
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Render Output Units (RPO’s)
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32
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32
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Memory Interface Width
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256-bit
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256-bit
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Memory Speed
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6.0Gbps
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5.5Gbps
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The requirement of graphic card to a person is based in three different scenarios. In first scenarios comes people who use their computer for surfing on web and preparing their projects or normal kind of stuff they don’t need any additional graphics for that as they use onboard memory built into the CPU itself. Second comes those who are interested in playing video games in low or medium or even high depending upon the game, or editing, watching high quality videos and some more normal kind of stuff that young youth usually do in their day today life needs mid range of graphic card to get going with that stuff. But, last comes the peoples with heavy pockets who don’t like to compromise with their job. Such peoples spent alote on just a single card to get the best experience, they usually do interesting stuff like 3D animation, editing videos, rendering, video games (at Ultra settings) and lot more cool stuff that we enjoy after completion.
We can’t claim that these are the only best cards among all as there are lot more to come.
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