GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps
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EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.94 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.91 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB has 1152 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.84 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.23 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 9 execution units.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.376 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB has a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps has a turbo clock of 1.936 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB is 1.835 GHz.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps has 2 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 EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps is 55 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB is 55 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G 11Gbps was released in Q2/2016.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING LED 3GB published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.