ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070
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Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 has 1920 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.72 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.61 TFLOPS.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB has 2176 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.65 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.18 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 15 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 34 execution units.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB has a 12 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 has a turbo clock of 1.721 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB is 1.650 GHz.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 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 94 °C.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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 ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1070 was released in Q2/2016.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost 12GB published in Q4/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.