MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G
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ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC

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 ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.87 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.26 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 ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 22 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 ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G has a turbo clock of 1.366 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC is 1.865 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 ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

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

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC 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 ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC 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 ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC 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 ROG Strix Radeon RX 5500 XT OC published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.