ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.73 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 12.42 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.80 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.60 TFLOPS.

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 28 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition is equipped with a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.388 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.938GHz.

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is 1.800 GHz.

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition 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 91 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 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 ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition are cooled with a Water cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition 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 ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition is 50 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is 50 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition was released in Q1/2017.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.