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I had a really great plan for our unboxing video for NVIDIA's Flagship RTX

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4090 I was gonna unbox the founders Edition but then our lab said sorry

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Linus we need it for benchmarking

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so I wasn't able to do that then I was gonna unbox one from EVGA

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so we'll settle for the next best thing check out this

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it's the RTX 4090 from Zotac that's

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right friends love gaming power the win

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here we go this GPU starts at 1600 US

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Dollars which means all the cool features and performance you're about to

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hear about can be yours five to six

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years from now once the price drops to a more worldly level this bad boy features

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over 16 000 of NVIDIA's Cuda cores 24 gigabytes

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of gddr6x memory and wow a whopping

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power consumption of 450 Watts which necessitates ah this is

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cool this new PCI Express Gen 5 12 pin

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power connector not only does it have 12

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volt and ground pins but it also has

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these sense pins that allow your GPU and your power applied to communicate their

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capabilities with each other to ensure that your system will never run out of

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spec now there's been quite a bit of discussion online about the fragility of

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these connectors apparently bending them at a really extreme angle can cause them

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to heat up this is actually true of typical PCI Express power connectors as

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well but what I will say is that the

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problem is probably exacerbated by the tiny tiny pins I wonder what the

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motivation was for that when you consider that the graphics cards these

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things are going to be attached to are so big

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oh I feel like it's too hot for TV but

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I'm gonna show it to you this

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monster Turbo's up to 2.52 gigahertz in the founders Edition

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configuration and overclocked cards could end up exceeding that 2.23

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gigahertz base and in spite of all that

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NVIDIA claims that configured with a Radeon 5900 X CPU you shouldn't need

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more than an 850 watt power supply in

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order to power it now what's really

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interesting to me looking at a card this size it has a whopping three what appear

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to be 100 110 millimeter fans

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but the actual length of the PCB is only

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up to here which means that this solid

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ass hunk of aluminum fins all down the

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back which also has a pass-through so you can see this fan right here is just

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blowing straight through the cooler is all needed to cool this thing good gravy

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now since everything but the unboxing is still embargoed by NVIDIA I'm not able

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to share any of our own performance thermal or power consumption numbers

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with you guys but we can make some guesses as to where the RTX 49d is going

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to stack up in NVIDIA's lineup just based on the slides that they've

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published they didn't tell us too much about performance in traditional

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rasterized games but we did see anywhere

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from two to as much as four times the performance in games using uh RTX Ray

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tracing and their new dlss 3.0 technology so it's worth talking about

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code ShortCircuit at bessie.com ShortCircuit first up dlss 3.0 is looking

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kind of amazing the first two generations of dlss were pretty

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straightforward we rendered at a lower resolution then used machine learning to

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upscale that rendered out image to a higher resolution improving visual

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Fidelity while hopefully not having too many artifacts or anomalies the LSS 3.0

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takes it to a whole new level generating

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entire frames in between your existing

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frames to help smooth out animations

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um I have to wonder if there's going to be a significant latency hit especially

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at the kinds of frame rates where you would need such a technology but that's

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something we're only going to be able to talk about once we can actually measure

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it the other big one though is that their

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new Ray tracing cores are supposedly up to double the performance and efficiency

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of their old ones which has led to some absolutely

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mind-bending demos okay this RC race car

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demo that NVIDIA produced I think they had they say 30 of their artists work on

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it apparently uses no pre-baked lighting

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whatsoever so we are just looking at Material physics to create these effects

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that is the kind of thing that I have dreamed about in games since well since

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I was old enough to dream about it high school maybe whatever it looks really

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cool another big highlight for me has got to be RTX remix man this was a

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mind-blowing demo when they pulled out Morrowind and it looked like this the

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ability to take an older game and essentially import objects environments

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lighting and then edit the game and play

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it back with edited elements could be an absolute Game Changer now I have seen

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some folks actually speaking out against this type of remixing and the arguments

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are are pretty fair you know like you might take away the artist's intended

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Ambiance or you might lose things like a

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lighting effect that lit up that doorway so that the player would know where to

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go next but the flip side of that argument is this might be our only

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chance of preserving these types of experiences I mean single player games

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without you know a season's pass or any

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other kind of games as a service elements are going the way of the

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dinosaur and you know thinking about whether or not my kids would be able to

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enjoy a game like Morrowind I don't think so not without some

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changes I mean even for me I got into Elder Scrolls with the Oblivion entry

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and I went back and I tried to play Morrowind after beating Oblivion and I

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was like I don't think so throw in some

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better objects throw in some better lighting a few Creature Comforts the

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kinds that the modding Community has over the years built time and time again

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for classic games and man I mean I want

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to play it so I I guess what I'm trying

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to say is the more tools we can put in the hands of talented PC gaming modders

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the better and

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I commend NVIDIA another big feature for RTX 40 series is their dual av1 encoders

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we haven't actually looked at NVIDIA's encoders yet because you know the thing

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I said before but what we have been able to do is look at the hardware av-1

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encoders on Intel's Arc gpus and so far av1 is looking extremely promising we

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are talking similar performance to h.264

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at around 60 the bit rate

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absolutely wild especially if you're someone who wants to game stream but you

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don't have an amazing internet connection or you want to Arc I have a

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ton of your gameplay footage and you don't want to deal with enormous file

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sizes also um Studio drivers and video reflex okay

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that's mostly stuff that we've seen before so why don't we take a closer

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look at the i o we've got HDMI 2.1 a all

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right as well as actually this is a bit of a disappointment three DisplayPort

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1.4 ports I was kind of hoping for DisplayPort 2.0 uhbr 10 because that's

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what Intel is shipping on their Arc gpus but I guess we aren't getting that I do

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want to take a closer look at this Zotac card though this thing is absolutely

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wild is that nine heat pipes full-size

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back play with backlighting

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that's got to be like uh that's gonna be a mode switcher right here I actually

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don't really know that much about it because the reality of it is even at

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sixteen hundred dollars people are gonna buy it so ultimately

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you're gonna end up with whatever RTX 490 is in stock even if this thing is

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only you know 30 40 50 faster than a 30

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90 TI in traditionally rendered games which it looks like it could very well

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be NVIDIA really didn't want to talk about that that much 30 90 TI's are

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still going for like 800 to 950 bucks on

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eBay 30 90s though ooh 390s are down like 700 750 which means that could be a

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pretty compelling option compared to this that's got to be Jake leaving for

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the day he's the only one with a car that loud this is actually a greater

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than three slot card can you guys believe this we've gotten to the point

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where I mean how far off just having like a seven wide like you just put it

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in that top PCIe slot and it's less of just it's less of a card and more of

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just like a module you just take the whole thing and you just put the whole

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thing in there it just takes up the whole Space you know now that I've said it someone like Jesus is totally gonna

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build that anyway we can't really speculate on all the

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details when it comes to Performance because we haven't been allowed to test the card and talk about it yet so that's

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it ShortCircuit unboxing and get over on LTT so you can check out the full

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review