GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0)
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MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) has 1920 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.72 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.61 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.86 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.95 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 15 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) has a turbo clock of 1.721 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is 1.860 GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) has 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 MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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 GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) is 37 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is 37 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) was released in Q2/2016.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.