MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
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PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.39 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.82 TFLOPS.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 V2 published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.