GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G
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ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.86 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.52 TFLOPS.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.87 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.80 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G has a turbo clock of 1.860 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB is 1.873 GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G 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 ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB 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 1080 G1 Gaming 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB 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 1080 G1 Gaming 8G is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G was released in Q2/2016.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1060 OC edition 6GB published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.