NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
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Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.55 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.12 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is 1.545 GHz.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 was released in Q3/2016.

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 published in Q4/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.