MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC
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EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.52 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.89 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB has 1152 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.84 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.23 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 5 architecture, which has 56 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 9 execution units.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.800 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB has a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.520 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB is 1.835 GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB 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 Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version --.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB 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 Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC was released in Q3/2017.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING 3GB published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.