MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK
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GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.62 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 11.61 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.01 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.29 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 28 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 40 execution units.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK is equipped with a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.376 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK has a turbo clock of 1.620 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is 2.010 GHz.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK 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 91 °C.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 99 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK are cooled with a AIO water cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SEA HAWK supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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 Ti SEA HAWK is 35 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G 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 Ti SEA HAWK was released in Q1/2017.

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.