GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G
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MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.01 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.29 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.57 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.21 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 40 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has a turbo clock of 2.010 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is 1.565 GHz.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G 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 99 °C.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC 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 GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is 58 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is 58 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G was released in Q3/2019.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.