MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1
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GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 has 1152 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 3.94 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.21 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.94 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 9 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is based on the Ellesmere architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 is equipped with a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.650GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is 1.206 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

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 ARMOR 3G V1 is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 was released in Q3/2016.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.