MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1
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MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC

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 MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC has 512 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.20 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.12 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 MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 8 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 MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 3G V1 has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is 1.203 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 MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 80 °C.

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

The MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC 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 MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC 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 MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC 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 ARMOR 3G V1 is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC 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 MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.