Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
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MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.55 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.12 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.77 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 9.06 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has a turbo clock of 1.545 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC is 1.771 GHz.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 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 98 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G 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 94 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G 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 590 8G G5 is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 was released in Q4/2018.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.