GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G
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ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition

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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition has 1920 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.80 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.90 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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 15 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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G has a turbo clock of 1.936 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition is 1.797 GHz.

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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition is equipped with a 2 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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition 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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition 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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition 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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition 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 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.