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allow me to put on my shill hat for a moment everyone else is going to tell

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you what's wrong with Intel's Ark A700

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gpus and we're going to need to talk about that too because it's a pretty

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sizable list I mean we've got the a770

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losing to a card from almost 10 years ago in CS go how

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embarrassing but what's this it beats

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murders the Radeon 6600 in Ray traced

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games and is available starting at just

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around its $289 MSRP something I will never take

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for granted again so it's with that in mind that I want to explore a different

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perspective one where the benefits of competition May outweigh the risk of

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buying into a first generation product

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that's right it is time to get blue pilled with me folks or not that one I

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meant like Intel blue though I am pretty excited right now

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Intel's a750 and a770 gpus are designed

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for gaming at either 1440p with medium details or 1080p Ultra and they've got

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NVIDIA's RTX 3060 directly in their

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crosshairs or at least now they do their

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transistor count and power consumption are both more comparable to the RTX

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3070 which would indicate that in fell

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well short of their original performance targets and is now trying to make

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lemonade out of these lemons but that's not our problem and from a consumer

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standpoint they kind of did because at

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$289 the a750 may just be the most

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silicon per dollar ever in a GPU and

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there are situations where it really shows check out this performance in

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directx12 games 1080p High has NVIDIA's

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36 taking nearly every game by a thin margin but when the resolution gets

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cranked to 1440p at medium details it's

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Intel racking up small winds nearly across the board and this is against a

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card that costs 50 to $100 more even

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looking closer The Arc cards continue to impress five and 1% lows are very

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comparable to the RTX 360 which means you won't feel any extra hitching or

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stuttering in heavy firefights and and while I was concerned that Ark might

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fall flat on its face in a rizzen system that wasn't the case at all oh and as an

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extra bonus Ark murders the more price

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comparable RTX 3050 isn't competition

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great this is the point in the video where Intel's employees and shareholders

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might want to stop watching cuz we're about to look at some games that aren't

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direct X12 or Vulcan in Shadow of the

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Tomb Raider ark's performance Falls to nearly half in direct X11 ouch and CSG

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go a direct X9 title where Arc feels like a totally different card every time

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you start it up with the a750 beating

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the a770 sometimes 1440p results being

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higher than 1080p results and oh by the

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way no matter which card you're looking at they get absolutely wrecked in

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performance by the 3050 a flagship GPU

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from 9 years ago and probably a competitive Abacus user I mean what

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happened to crush Intel's performance in these older titles well in a nutshell

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Arc isn't actually running direct X9 games in direct X9 instead they're using

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a directx9 to directx12 translation

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layer this works because you can turn basically any dx9 command into a string

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of dx12 commands which is great for

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compatibility but in the process you are adding a

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buttload of CPU overhead so much that

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any small background task can significantly affect your frame rates

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now because of the extremely limited time that we were given to Benchmark Arc

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before the Embargo lift we weren't able to test a wide variety of older games

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this is actually a strategy that we've seen often when a manufacturer doesn't

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want you to look too closely fortunately

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we have a solution to that tomorrow we are going to be live for hours taking

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requests from our community and gaming side by side on the ark a770 and RTX 360

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so you can see how your favorite games run or if they run at all because

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nothing at this point is a guarantee Intel told us Point Blank that they knew

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about the Performance challenges of Arc in older games and they had a strategy

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where they were going to price this generation of cards according to how

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they would perform in a worst case scenario or or in tier three games and

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I'm not going to go as far as to say that Intel lied which would imply a

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premeditated intention to deceive but what I do have to say is that these csgo

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results show that they did not follow through on this I mean charitably we

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could say that the ark gets half of the performance of an RTX 3060 though at

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108p it's more like a third so even if

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we're looking at a $400 RTX 3060 these

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A700 series gpus should be at most 200

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bucks but if we go back to that die siize conversation I mean remember this

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is a GPU that is larger than a 3070 and

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built on tsmc's Cutting Edge and six node rather than an Intel's own Fab so

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they can't exactly give themselves a friends and neighbors discount on the

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fabbing so if they went any lower they'd likely be losing money on every card

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they sold and it gets even worse

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unfortunately for Intel who's trying to position themselves as the scrappy

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Underdog undercutting NVIDIA's monopolistic pricing we already have

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Scrappy Underdog at home it's AMD and

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their radon 6600 goes for about 250

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bucks and is able to truly trade blows

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with the RTX 3060 without the inp

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specific directx12 titles fine print and

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although AMD's software hasn't always been fantastic if our Community feedback

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is anything to go by the last couple of years have been a real turning point and

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their rdna 2 cards have aged like fine wine getting better with each new driver

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update I would hope that the same will happen for Ark and we actually have seen

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a lot of improvement since its first outing Arc was actually impressively

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stable for a first gen product throughout our testing but when it comes

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to Raw performance there are clearly some problems here that can't be fixed

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without new silicon like Intel's Reliance on resizable bar rebar as we've

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started calling it is a feature that allows for much larger more efficient

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data dumps between the GPU and the system memory it's only available on

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systems from the last few years but for most people that's not really a huge

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deal because performance on AMD and NVIDIA cards only improves by anywhere

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from 1 to at most about 10% for Intel on

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the other hand rebar is basically a NE

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necessity performance can end up so bad without it that Intel said in their own

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press briefing that if you don't have it you might as well get a

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3060 with this in mind then we point blank asked Intel why the heck would

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anybody buy an arc GPU over the RX 6600

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to which they replied that the RX 6600 doesn't have feature parody with the

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a750 when compared to radon 6000 Intel

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claimed Arc has much better rate tracing AI acceleration and media encoders that

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make it a much closer competitor to the RTX 3060 and okay yeah if you care about

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those things they actually have a pretty good point in Ray tracing titles the

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a770 is a tiny bit behind the RTX 360

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and in Shadow of the Tomb Raider Intel's XE super sampling or XS ended up

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performing very similarly to NVIDIA's dlss 2 so yes Intel you do very much

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have a leg up on AMD in 100% of the Strand type games on the market along

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with the other 20 games that actually support xss but it's clear you'll need

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to pull some tricks out of your sleeves to get game developers to adopt xcss

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more broadly that sleeve trick by the way is easy on our ShortCircuit hoodie

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sampling either if you care about AI performance more generally Arc is kind

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of excellent and here's why traditionally Matrix operations are done

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using a Mac or a multiply accumulate combine which is okay at traditional

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workloads but can be pretty slow for AI on integrated Graphics Intel has a

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fancier way to math called DP 4A where it takes a 32-bit register and splits it

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into 8 bit chunks allowing for four parallel operations to be performed at

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once improving throughput by about four times the full fat Arc cards like the

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a750 take that to the next level with

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xmx which allows you to do multiple multiply accumulates in parallel which

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can improve throughput by up to 16 times

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in theory and in practice where the a770

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absolutely slaughtered the competition in topaz video enhance AI without

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running into any of the issues that we experienced in our a370 M review Intel

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and decoding which is particularly beneficial for streamers due to its much

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higher image quality at low bit rates compared to to h264 we actually have a

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video coming up that discusses using a low-end Arc GPU as kind of an encoding

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co-processor if you don't want to spend $900 on an RTX 47 excuse me sorry I mean

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480 12 gig unfortunately in more

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RTX 3060 is able to handily embarrass

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even the top tier a770 and the same goes

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for blender render ing though as a consolation prize Intel was at least

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able to beat the 3050 in blender while

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AMD continued to make its usual excellent case for never using AMD if

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you're a blender artist Intel also made a good case for not using archon Lin for

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the foreseeable future sorry guys I know that you had High Hopes but currently

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Arc only supports Colonel version 6 and

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Intel has said that they do not plan on supporting version 5 meaning that every

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stable version of Linux is currently not supported to put this in perspective for

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the non-Linux folks out there this is basically like Intel launching a product

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but only having drivers for Windows

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12 oh one thing I haven't mentioned yet

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is that there are both 16 gig and 8 gig versions of the a770 but the reason I

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didn't mention that is that Intel is only doing a small run of 16 gig cards

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and the a750 is the far more compelling

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option anyway at $289 for nearly the the

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same performance now thank you for that I'm

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going to do something that might surprise you I'm going to ask you you

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fine viewer of Linus Tech tips you you Savvy source of tech support for your

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friends and family to seriously consider

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Arc for your next GPU because somebody

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needs to do it and it can't be your friend who's shopping for pre-builts

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right now you do not want to help them troubleshoot random edge cases on this

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thing but but somebody has to do it

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because the last few years have made it clear that NVIDIA has no qualms about

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gouging their customers when there's a shortage or no shortage and the thing is

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that everyone says they want more competition but then they go ahead and

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just buy the NVIDIA GPU and hey thanks

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AMD for keeping Team Green honest glad you exist except when you don't keep

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Team Green honest because you also like to jack up your prices and sell to

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crypto miners so there it is if you're

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the technical type and don't mind rolling the dice once in a while I'm

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asking you to give Intel Arc a shot you might not get as many FPS but I think

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it's safe to say you'll have a more interesting Hardware experience than a

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3060 owner will you can even overclock the thing or you could just ignore my

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plea and wait for AMD's rdna 3 to drop so you can pick up a GPU that was

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designed to take on NVIDIA's 4000 series

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instead of one that failed to take on the 3070

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all that kind of good stuff show the RGB lighting up