Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS
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MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.85 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.45 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero has 3072 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.82 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 11.15 TFLOPS.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 48 execution units.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.938GHz.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS has a turbo clock of 1.847 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is 1.815 GHz.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS has 1 x 6-Pin, 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 RTX 2080 SUPER Aero 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 89 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is cooled by a Air cooling.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero 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 Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GS was released in Q2/2016.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.