MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G
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ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.37 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.71 TFLOPS.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.57 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 11.27 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 56 execution units.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.800GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G has a turbo clock of 1.366 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is 1.573 GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G 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 90 °C.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming 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 580 Armor MK2 8G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G was released in Q3/2018.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.