MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC
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MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC has 1408 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.85 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.027GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.845 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G is 1.809 GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 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 95 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC was released in Q3/2019.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.