MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING VR 6G
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XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING VR 6G has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.75 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.48 TFLOPS.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.45 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.06 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

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

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING VR 6G has a turbo clock of 1.746 GHz. The turbo frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson is 1.450 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING VR 6G 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 XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson 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 90 °C.

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

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson 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 GAMING VR 6G is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson 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 6G was released in Q3/2016.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTR-S Black Edition 8GB Crimson published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.