MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G
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PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G has 1920 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.68 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.45 TFLOPS.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 30 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G has a turbo clock of 1.680 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is 1.733 GHz.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 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 88 °C.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is equipped with a 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 RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 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 RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G is 43 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is 43 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, MSI GeForce RTX 2060 AERO ITX 6G was released in Q1/2019.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.