GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB
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GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB has 1152 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.73 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.00 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.82 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.36 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 9 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB is equipped with a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC is 1.815 GHz.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB has 1 x 6-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 2070 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 89 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 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 GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB was released in Q3/2016.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC published in Q4/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.