Gainward GeForce GTX 1070
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MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 has 1920 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.68 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.46 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.83 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.16 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.

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

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 has a turbo clock of 1.683 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X is 1.830 GHz.

The Gainward 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 MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

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

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X is cooled by a Air cooling.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X 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 Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X published in Q4/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.