WEBVTT 00:00:00.420 --> 00:00:04.000 - AMD hasn't been, shall we say competitive 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.680 at the top end of GPU's for a long time now, 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:11.330 but that's changing. At least we think it is 00:00:11.330 --> 00:00:15.430 we don't have reviews available yet. And these guys here 00:00:15.430 --> 00:00:18.123 have not yet been opened but 00:00:20.070 --> 00:00:23.413 still pretty exciting. Isn't it? Like when was the last time? It was like 00:00:23.413 --> 00:00:26.810 I don't know, fury, you could make the argument for fury. 00:00:26.810 --> 00:00:30.410 Like, come on. (laughing) 00:00:30.410 --> 00:00:34.083 It's been such a long ride, but here we are. 00:00:34.083 --> 00:00:38.280 And now we've got the Radeon RX 6000 Series. We've got the 6800 on top here 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.920 in this comparatively tiny box although it is quite fetching, 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:46.400 I must say. And the 6800 XT. 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:50.860 The RX 6800 XT is what AMD is pitting against the RTX 380. 00:00:50.860 --> 00:00:54.820 This guy here. And it looks like 00:00:54.820 --> 00:00:58.610 it's gonna be a little bit bigger physically. Don't know yet, 00:00:58.610 --> 00:01:02.840 but at $649, it's actually going to be about 50 bucks cheaper 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.140 while purportedly having roughly the same performance 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:10.660 in traditional games. The RX 6800 meanwhile 00:01:10.660 --> 00:01:15.030 is sort of a competitor for the RTX 3070. 00:01:15.030 --> 00:01:18.590 I mean, it looks like it completely trounces it 00:01:18.590 --> 00:01:22.317 based on AMD's data, but at the same time, it's like, what is it? 00:01:22.317 --> 00:01:26.370 $80 more? Yeah, 579. This 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:28.563 only costs what? 00:01:29.656 --> 00:01:33.743 $70 less than this. 00:01:34.630 --> 00:01:36.533 What is AMD smoking right now? 00:01:38.090 --> 00:01:42.640 That's ridiculous. So let's get into it and let's start off with the little one. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.250 Look at that. It's never even been opened, not even in our inventory. 00:01:46.250 --> 00:01:50.190 I could walk away with this right now and nobody would know except for you guys. 00:01:50.190 --> 00:01:55.050 All right. Let's see what we got here. Actually really nice packaging so far. 00:01:55.050 --> 00:01:59.360 Uncompromised 4k gaming, AMD fidelity of FX optimized, 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:03.360 16 gigabytes of memory and PCI express 4.0 ready. 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:06.480 So we pulled this off. Oh yeah. Look at that. It's got a little fanning here 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.940 for the card and we've also got 00:02:10.030 --> 00:02:12.783 safety precaution and FCC compliance. 00:02:15.970 --> 00:02:16.933 I am so sorry. 00:02:21.230 --> 00:02:23.420 And of course we have the main event in here. 00:02:25.545 --> 00:02:31.560 Oh man. That looks and feels really nice. 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:36.640 Like this is, this is solid. And yet it's got curves to it. 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:40.210 So our display outputs we've got a USB type C, 00:02:40.210 --> 00:02:45.260 two display ports which support display compression 1.4 00:02:45.260 --> 00:02:49.110 and HDMI 2.1 which supposedly supports 00:02:49.110 --> 00:02:52.640 the full 48 gigabits per second AMD doesn't specifically say this, 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:56.960 what is it? Fixed rate link. 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:01.200 I don't know why they called it that it makes no sense whatsoever, but Hey, HDMI. 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:05.300 Round back we've got that there power delivery. Those are really tiny 00:03:05.300 --> 00:03:09.150 surface-mount devices there. I really liked the look of this card. 00:03:09.150 --> 00:03:13.790 The two tone. It's just so nice. And they got this little guide here 00:03:13.790 --> 00:03:17.610 to say this is the screw you should take out first I guess. I can't take it apart for you 00:03:17.610 --> 00:03:21.640 unfortunately. But yeah, and these fans look really nice. 00:03:21.640 --> 00:03:25.950 They feel nice too. And yeah, the whole thing is basically made of metal. 00:03:25.950 --> 00:03:30.000 This is sweet. So this is the RTX 3080. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:33.810 Yeah, and bear in mind this is the 6800 non XT 00:03:33.810 --> 00:03:35.963 and it's a little shorter, 00:03:37.150 --> 00:03:41.680 roughly the same thickness. This is a little thicker actually. 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:43.253 And as far as width goes, 00:03:45.660 --> 00:03:47.523 okay, the Radeon is a bit bigger. 00:03:50.970 --> 00:03:54.070 Which one weighs more. I feel like this weighs more. 00:03:54.070 --> 00:03:55.470 Let's get our scale and see. 00:03:57.380 --> 00:04:02.450 So this boy weighs about 1.29 kg 00:04:05.589 --> 00:04:08.680 or two pounds 13.5 ounces 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.300 as for our Radeon 1.32 kg, 00:04:13.300 --> 00:04:17.120 two point 14. Sorry. That's not how pounds work. 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.490 Two pounds, 14.5 ounces. I hate imperial. Thank you. 00:04:21.490 --> 00:04:26.940 2.91 pounds. So yeah, this is a little bit heavier 00:04:26.940 --> 00:04:31.270 and I guess that would be expected because they're not really relying on that 00:04:31.270 --> 00:04:34.310 revolutionary pass through flow-through design 00:04:34.310 --> 00:04:37.320 that NVIDIA has going here. Like you can 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:40.590 let's put it over this. Yeah. You can see through the fan. 00:04:40.590 --> 00:04:44.150 So yeah, they don't have that going for them. This is just a straight, traditional 00:04:44.150 --> 00:04:47.850 blow through the, what's that? Oh, I bit my tongue. 00:04:47.850 --> 00:04:51.680 So this is just the traditional type of exhausting to the case kind of cooler. 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:55.880 So this is what it's competing against. The RTX 3070 00:04:55.880 --> 00:05:02.370 and that is quite a size difference. 00:05:02.370 --> 00:05:06.190 And if I were to plop this down onto this 00:05:06.190 --> 00:05:10.053 that's not even a kilogram, which is two pounds, 2.8 ounces. 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:15.440 But then again, I mean, this is the thing it's not directly competing 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:18.350 which is kind of unfortunate because 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:23.550 like how do we compare, like what this is compared to. Nothing. 00:05:23.550 --> 00:05:24.853 It doesn't compare to anything. 00:05:26.550 --> 00:05:31.670 This is gonna be a real nightmare to benchmark. It's closer to a 3080 than a 3070. 00:05:31.670 --> 00:05:34.390 Let's just put it that way. That's a very good segue 00:05:36.220 --> 00:05:37.053 into 00:05:39.850 --> 00:05:41.390 the 6800 XT 00:05:43.750 --> 00:05:47.710 which is a good $70 more. I think 00:05:47.710 --> 00:05:51.193 - [Jono] You had a good, really good segue to the sponsor. 00:05:52.610 --> 00:05:56.530 - Oh, I'm being told that I should have segue to the sponsor 00:05:56.530 --> 00:06:02.140 instead of this other card. Well, that's me for you, I guess. 00:06:02.140 --> 00:06:06.340 Thanks to SteelSeries 00:06:06.340 --> 00:06:10.170 for sponsoring this the SteelSeries Aerox 3 wireless 00:06:10.170 --> 00:06:13.470 is the newest mouse by SteelSeries. That weighs only 66 grams 00:06:13.470 --> 00:06:16.940 making it one of the latest mice available and uses quantum wireless 2.0 00:06:16.940 --> 00:06:21.250 for nearly zero latency for speed and stability it can use 2.4 gigahertz RF 00:06:21.250 --> 00:06:24.270 and Bluetooth connections along with a USB type C 00:06:24.270 --> 00:06:28.160 for fast charging end up with a 40 hours of battery life in 15 minutes 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:33.030 awkward barrier technology makes it the first IP 54 dust and splash resistant gaming mouse. 00:06:33.030 --> 00:06:36.713 Go to steelseries.com to check out the Aerox 3 wireless today. 00:06:37.850 --> 00:06:40.890 Let's unbox this guy. There is also 00:06:40.890 --> 00:06:44.160 an unbroken seal here, 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.060 but this box is much more substantial. 00:06:49.090 --> 00:06:50.403 I slashed the box. 00:06:52.980 --> 00:06:56.430 Just in case anyone's wondering there's basically nothing on the back of the box. 00:06:56.430 --> 00:07:01.110 Now this is the one that everyone wants to see. This is the one that everyone's kind of 00:07:01.110 --> 00:07:04.493 salivating over, aside with a 6900 XT, which is much nicer. 00:07:05.990 --> 00:07:09.640 Here we go. Welcome to the red team. 00:07:09.640 --> 00:07:12.640 You've joined a select community with an uncompromising passion 00:07:12.640 --> 00:07:17.660 for premium gaming that share desires at the heart of everything we do. 00:07:17.660 --> 00:07:22.010 It's why we've engineered the fastest AMD Radeon RX graphics cards ever 00:07:22.010 --> 00:07:25.110 to deliver a powerful gaming experience, 00:07:25.110 --> 00:07:27.120 have fun #AMDRedTeam. 00:07:28.131 --> 00:07:31.715 And then we had this useless little, thing again. 00:07:31.715 --> 00:07:33.323 It doesn't look much different, 00:07:39.230 --> 00:07:42.193 - [Jono] He thick! - But it feels different. Yeah. 00:07:43.420 --> 00:07:47.500 That is a thick stack of fins right there. 00:07:47.500 --> 00:07:52.640 Is it roughly the same size though? Yeah, it kinda is. 00:07:52.640 --> 00:07:56.820 There's more fan area. They're not more dense but they are definitely taller, 00:07:56.820 --> 00:08:00.453 but I know what this is. This is the 6800 XT and on the top, 00:08:00.453 --> 00:08:05.210 we've got exactly the same selection of ports. We have USB type C, 00:08:05.210 --> 00:08:08.740 two DisplayPort with displacement and compression 1.4 00:08:08.740 --> 00:08:11.830 and the HDMI 2.1 which presumably 00:08:11.830 --> 00:08:15.360 is the full 48 gigabits per second. I was hoping that I would have 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.890 more to say about this, but it's just thicker. 00:08:18.890 --> 00:08:24.660 That's kind of weird. The Radeon text is a different color. 00:08:24.660 --> 00:08:29.070 So this is just red. This looks like it might be glossy 00:08:29.070 --> 00:08:33.100 or maybe it might even be hiding some RGB 00:08:33.100 --> 00:08:36.390 who knows. All right, let's see how much this guy weighs. 00:08:37.410 --> 00:08:39.653 1.366 kg, 00:08:40.700 --> 00:08:43.173 three pounds, 0.2 ounces. 00:08:45.090 --> 00:08:49.690 You're probably gonna want a GPU brace to support this guy. 00:08:49.690 --> 00:08:54.260 Good thing there's actually partner cards that are going to be coming out with a built-in liquid cooling. 00:08:54.260 --> 00:08:58.783 Note that AMD says that it's necessary actually, because both of these cards. 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:03.960 And in fact even the 6900 XT are going to be 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:09.390 potentially less power hungry and less thermally bad 00:09:09.390 --> 00:09:13.740 than either of these. Yeah, the 6800 XT is 250 Watts 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:16.090 with a 650 Watt recommended power supply 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.350 while the 6800 XT 00:09:20.350 --> 00:09:23.950 is 300 Watts with recommended 750 watt power supply. 00:09:23.950 --> 00:09:28.810 And that is exactly the same as the 6900 XT, despite that card's extra power 00:09:28.810 --> 00:09:34.360 which is interesting because the only real difference between this card and the 6900 XT 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:38.070 is that this card has eight pure compute units. 00:09:38.070 --> 00:09:40.043 So this is 60 compute units. 00:09:41.310 --> 00:09:45.570 This is 72 and the big boy is 80. 00:09:45.570 --> 00:09:48.610 Each one of those has a Ray accelerator that AMD is adding 00:09:48.610 --> 00:09:52.610 for the first time in this generation. And presumably 00:09:52.610 --> 00:09:55.970 it'll just work with any game that supports RTX 00:09:55.970 --> 00:09:59.750 which is just really fancy words for Vulkan Raytracing 00:09:59.750 --> 00:10:01.713 or DirectX Raytracing. 00:10:03.010 --> 00:10:07.920 Interestingly, AMD is marketing both of these cards 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:11.880 towards people who might have a GTX 1080 ti 00:10:11.880 --> 00:10:15.860 and they wanted to upgrade to something that's gonna handle a little bit higher frame rates 00:10:15.860 --> 00:10:19.790 or even Raytracing. The 6800 non XT 00:10:19.790 --> 00:10:23.360 AMD is kind of aiming at people who have 1440P or 1080P 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:27.720 high refresh rate monitors, that they want to really drive at higher visual fidelity 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.100 and higher frame rates. The 6800 XT 00:10:31.100 --> 00:10:36.380 is aimed more towards people who have 4k displays or 1440P high refresh rate displays 00:10:36.380 --> 00:10:42.310 who not only want to have that high refresh rate high gaming, new frame rate experience 00:10:42.310 --> 00:10:47.200 but also have the power to do a lot of sightseeing. So things like Rise of the Tomb Raider 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:50.530 Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Minecraft RTX, 00:10:50.530 --> 00:10:53.330 that kind of thing. You know if you're looking at 00:10:54.220 --> 00:10:57.440 what is the best bang for the buck it really depends on what you're doing. 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.710 If you're doing streaming or anything, really with, 00:11:00.710 --> 00:11:03.950 you know work from home, conferencing, that kind of thing. 00:11:03.950 --> 00:11:08.690 Then the 3070 is better all-rounder than this, even though this is more powerful. 00:11:08.690 --> 00:11:15.030 Really depends on what your priorities are. This guy though is actually priced below the 3080, 00:11:15.030 --> 00:11:17.490 meaning that you have less of a 00:11:18.580 --> 00:11:23.300 do I wanna go higher for less but better performance 00:11:23.300 --> 00:11:26.440 and more of a do I want to go lower for less, but 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:30.680 the same or better performance? I think this is the better value proposition, 00:11:30.680 --> 00:11:34.040 personally but you know, your mileage may vary. 00:11:34.040 --> 00:11:37.640 Some people might prefer to have a little bit extra horsepower 00:11:37.640 --> 00:11:40.970 and they don't care about RTX voice noise canceling 00:11:40.970 --> 00:11:43.490 or anything like that. They just want the frames 00:11:44.490 --> 00:11:48.470 or maybe they're into content creation. All of them cards on lineup 00:11:48.470 --> 00:11:51.880 from the 6800, all the way up to the 6900 XT, 00:11:51.880 --> 00:11:55.730 not only have 16 gigabytes of GDDR6 memory 00:11:55.730 --> 00:11:59.200 but they also have 128 megabytes of Infinity Cache 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.590 which is something that AMD is saying runs 00:12:02.590 --> 00:12:06.430 1.6 terabytes per second, in terms of speed, 00:12:06.430 --> 00:12:11.610 which is about three plus times faster than the main memory in this card. 00:12:11.610 --> 00:12:15.090 It's ridiculous. But at the same time 00:12:15.090 --> 00:12:17.600 for a lot of the things that your GPU is going to be doing 00:12:18.940 --> 00:12:22.270 it's not going to be like that major I'm gonna write the whole 00:12:22.270 --> 00:12:25.740 video memory back again kind of deal you know. 00:12:25.740 --> 00:12:29.273 It's gonna be the same kind of thing that's updating over and over and over again, 00:12:29.273 --> 00:12:32.340 while you have your assets all in the main memory. 00:12:32.340 --> 00:12:37.750 So in that respect AMD might have the right idea here. 00:12:37.750 --> 00:12:41.820 They're saving money on the memory and then just giving you the same amount of memory 00:12:41.820 --> 00:12:45.890 across the board. And then they're just going to give you 00:12:45.890 --> 00:12:49.223 really fast cache memory. That's on the actual GPU diet itself. 00:12:50.260 --> 00:12:54.050 It's an interesting take on things and I'm very excited to figure out 00:12:54.050 --> 00:12:56.300 whether or not that's actually going to help them. 00:12:57.350 --> 00:13:02.320 Obviously I haven't tested these yet. And you guys won't know until 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:05.320 I think two days from now whether or not it's any good. 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:10.020 Aside from that the only question that's really left to answer is 00:13:10.020 --> 00:13:13.700 will it be available at launch 'cause NVIDIA has had 00:13:13.700 --> 00:13:17.630 nothing but problems with their RTX 3000 series 00:13:17.630 --> 00:13:21.440 and AMD's launch of Ryzen 5000 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.680 has been similarly disastrous. 00:13:24.680 --> 00:13:28.780 And I mean, depending on who you ask that's because it's a paper launch, 00:13:28.780 --> 00:13:33.010 which I don't think is true or it could be because scalpers, 00:13:33.010 --> 00:13:37.670 which I guess is also true but it's also because there's unprecedented demand 00:13:37.670 --> 00:13:41.870 for new computers and faster parts because we just haven't had anything 00:13:41.870 --> 00:13:46.630 that was this good in a long time. So the appetite is there. 00:13:46.630 --> 00:13:50.980 People have seen that the appetite is there and they're very much willing to go out 00:13:50.980 --> 00:13:54.890 and spend the money to get it now so that they can charge you way more 00:13:54.890 --> 00:13:59.173 later. Is it gonna be the same for the Radeon RX 6000 series? 00:14:00.330 --> 00:14:02.463 According to AMD and I quote 00:14:03.750 --> 00:14:07.030 I can tell you that we've planned for a successful launch. 00:14:07.030 --> 00:14:11.370 We are working very hard to ensure we have product supplied at launch time around the world. 00:14:11.370 --> 00:14:14.490 And we were actively, working with our partners to at least be sure 00:14:14.490 --> 00:14:16.803 that we can get the products out in the hands of gamers. 00:14:17.650 --> 00:14:21.420 We do expect that we're going to have great global availability at launch, 00:14:21.420 --> 00:14:24.470 and we're really excited to get products out to as many people we can. 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:28.930 Which I mean of course, they're gonna say that. 00:14:29.860 --> 00:14:33.390 You believe them? I don't know. I guess it all depends on 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:39.080 actually, you know what? It doesn't depend on anything. Nobody's going to wait for our purview. 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.690 You should, but most people won't. 00:14:42.690 --> 00:14:47.020 So I don't know. I guess we'll just have to see. 00:14:48.063 --> 00:14:51.150 - [Brandon] Subscribe! (laughing) 00:14:51.150 --> 00:14:55.830 - Yeah, we'll just have to see, just like you'll have to see another episode of ShortCircuit 00:14:55.830 --> 00:14:58.840 sometime later. Subscribe. Thanks for watching. 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.513 Take care and good luck.