MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC
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Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.77 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.06 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.34 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.88 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.771 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 is 1.340 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC 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 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 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 1080 AERO 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 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 1080 AERO 8G OC is 35 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 is 35 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC was released in Q2/2016.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 V2 published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.