ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB
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GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.76 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.51 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.87 TFLOPS.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.

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

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB has a turbo clock of 1.759 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is 1.845 GHz.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB 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 GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC 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 Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC 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 Strix GeForce GTX 1060 Advanced edition 6GB is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.