Gainward GeForce GTX 1070
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MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G

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 Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.20 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G is based on the RDNA 1 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G has a 8 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G is 1.845 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

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

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G 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 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.