MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.74 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 8.01 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.81 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.64 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.740 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G is 1.809 GHz.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC 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 89 °C.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G 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 2070 ARMOR 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G 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 2070 ARMOR 8G OC is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC was released in Q4/2018.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 ROCK 6G published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.