GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2
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PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.76 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.00 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 has 512 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.19 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.22 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 has a turbo clock of 1.759 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 is 1.190 GHz.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 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 PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 80 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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 1080 EX OC V2 is 43 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 is 43 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC V2 was released in Q2/2016.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.