GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB
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KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition

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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition has 1920 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.68 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.46 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 15 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 3GB has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition is 1.683 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

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

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition 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 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1070 Virtual Edition published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.