MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING 8G
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GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING 8G 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G has 1920 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.84 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.04 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 15 execution units.

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

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING 8G has a turbo clock of 1.771 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G is 1.835 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING 8G has 1 x 6-Pin, 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G 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 94 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 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 1080 GAMING 8G is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8G published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.