MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION
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XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION has 1920 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.68 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.46 TFLOPS.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.41 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.87 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 15 streaming multiprocessors.

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

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION has a turbo clock of 1.683 GHz. The turbo frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB is 1.405 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION 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 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB is equipped with a 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 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION are cooled with a Air cooling.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB 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 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Core Edition 8GB is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 1070 FOUNDERS EDITION was released in Q2/2016.

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