GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0)
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.87 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) has a turbo clock of 1.721 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 1.733 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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 GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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 GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE 8G (rev. 2.0) is 37 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 37 mm and thus requires the space of 2 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.