MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1
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EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1 has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING has 2816 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.23 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.92 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1 is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1 has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING is 1.228 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G 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 EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING is cooled by a Water cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING 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 MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G V1 is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING 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 6G V1 was released in Q3/2016.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYDRO COPPER GAMING published in Q2/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.