The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.
Memory
Memory
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
1.251 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
10.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
320 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.
The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2
Base Clock
1.257 GHz
1.607 GHz
Boost Clock
1.393 GHz
1.733 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G has a turbo clock of 1.393 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is 1.733 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2
TDP
185 W
180 W
Tjunction max
90 °C
94 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin
1 x 8-Pin
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The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 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 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.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2
Fan-Type
Axial
Radial
Fan 1
2 x 100 mm
1 x 70 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.
The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
2x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
2x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.4
DVI
1
1
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The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G 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.
Featureset
Featureset
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
MSI Mystic Light
No LED lighting
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The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.
The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
Decode
AV1
No
No
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2
Length
276 mm
267 mm
Height
140 mm
111 mm
Width
42 mm
42 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
Weight
978 g
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SFF-Ready
No
No
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The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.
The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.
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