MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING VR 3G
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MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING VR 3G has 1152 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.75 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.03 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.47 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.54 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 56 execution units.

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

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.800GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING VR 3G has a turbo clock of 1.746 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is 1.471 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING VR 3G 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 RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

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

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

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

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G 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 GAMING VR 3G is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.