GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G
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MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G 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 MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.77 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 9.06 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.300 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.376GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G has a turbo clock of 1.936 GHz+ 12 %. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G is 1.771 GHz+ 2 %.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 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 94 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 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 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G are cooled with a Water cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G 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 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is 25 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G is 25 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING+ 8G published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.