Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5
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ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 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 TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.89 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.33 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has a turbo clock of 1.366 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC is 1.890 GHz.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 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 TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 was released in Q4/2017.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.