GALAX GeForce RTX 2070
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GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.62 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.46 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.75 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 12.52 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G has a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.431GHz.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 has a turbo clock of 1.620 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G is 1.746 GHz.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 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 89 °C.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G is cooled by a Water cooling.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G 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 RTX 2070 is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 was released in Q4/2018.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G published in Q1/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.