GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G
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Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G has 2944 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.07 TFLOPS.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC has 1536 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.82 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.58 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 46 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 24 execution units.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G has a turbo clock of 1.710 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC is 1.815 GHz.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 88 °C.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC 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 RTX 2080 Windforce 8G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Windforce 8G was released in Q4/2018.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Ti StormX OC published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.