MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC
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MSI Radeon RX 580 8G

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.76 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.51 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.34 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.60 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 580 8G is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC has a turbo clock of 1.759 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 580 8G is 1.340 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC has 1 x 6-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 Radeon RX 580 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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 MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 580 8G is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC was released in Q3/2016.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 8G published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.