ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
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PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition 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 ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is 1.733 GHz.

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition 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 ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition 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 ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, ASUS Expedition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB was released in Q3/2016.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.