GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC White
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G

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

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.94 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 9.91 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

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

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.300GHz.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC White has a turbo clock of 1.815 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is 1.936 GHz.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 OC White 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 GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is equipped with a 2 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 RTX 2070 OC White are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is cooled by a Water cooling.

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

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G 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 OC White is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G 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 OC White was released in Q4/2018.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.