WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.259 NVIDIA laid down some hard truths on the industry Moore's Law is dead they said 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:11.780 gpus just can't get faster and cheaper the way they used to they said and then 00:00:09.059 --> 00:00:11.780 AMD was like 00:00:12.059 --> 00:00:18.619 that's stupid here's faster gpus for 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:23.279 cheaper than the last generation God I'm 00:00:18.619 --> 00:00:26.279 introducing the Radeon RX 7900 00:00:23.279 --> 00:00:29.640 XT and XTX I want to make this very 00:00:26.279 --> 00:00:32.759 clear these are not exactly value gpus 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:35.760 they're still coming in at 900 and a 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:38.219 thousand US dollars for the XT and the 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:43.500 XTX respectively but they are significantly less expensive FPS per 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:48.960 dollar if AMD is to be believed then Team Green and they are a hundred 00:00:46.500 --> 00:00:55.020 dollars less expensive each than the last generation top and almost top cards 00:00:52.260 --> 00:01:00.180 from the 6000 Series so let's go ahead and take a closer look at these bad boys 00:00:57.300 --> 00:01:06.299 it gets even better as we go not only are these cards delivering up to in the 00:01:03.239 --> 00:01:08.820 range of 70 better performance than last 00:01:06.299 --> 00:01:13.380 time around but look at this they come in down right 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:19.200 you can get them out of the damn box they come in downright reasonable form 00:01:16.380 --> 00:01:24.119 factors wait is this no this is only the XT this is only the XT maybe the XTX is 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:28.560 an absolute chungus monster but this is this is totally fine here hold on a 00:01:27.240 --> 00:01:36.479 second hold on a second I'm gonna tell you more about it in a minute but first let's pull out an RTX 4080 for 00:01:32.759 --> 00:01:40.320 comparison what the heck I think it's 00:01:36.479 --> 00:01:43.979 fair to say that the 7900 XT has more in 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:46.680 common physically with an RTX 2060 card 00:01:43.979 --> 00:01:52.320 than the 4080. look at that is that wild or what how did they do that 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:57.720 well for one thing it's rumored that the RTX 4080 and 4090 were supposed to be 00:01:55.380 --> 00:02:03.240 even power hungrier than they ended up being which might be why the coolers for 00:02:00.420 --> 00:02:09.060 them are so overbuilt for their final tdps the other reason is that as I just 00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:17.340 alluded to AMD's power consumption for these cards is to be clear very high at 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:19.500 300 and 355 Watts for the XT and the XTX 00:02:17.340 --> 00:02:26.040 respectively but that's still within the range of what you can do in a dual slot 00:02:22.260 --> 00:02:28.980 not quite dual slot almost dual slot but 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:32.700 only full height card design that's one of the really big ones how much taller 00:02:31.260 --> 00:02:35.580 cards have gotten over the last little while especially if you want to build a 00:02:34.260 --> 00:02:40.620 small form factor machine or something like that you've really run out of high performance options another thing aside 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:46.440 from performance that we can talk about here is the display outputs we've got 00:02:43.980 --> 00:02:51.360 HDMI DisplayPort other more different DisplayPort and USB type-c on the AMD 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:56.700 the reference cards but the coolest thing about this is that these 00:02:53.160 --> 00:03:00.680 DisplayPort ports are the new uhbr 10 00:02:56.700 --> 00:03:03.660 DisplayPort 2.1 standard in practice 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:09.180 that may not end up meaning that much because while AMD does advertise these 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:15.659 cards as capable of high refresh rate 4K and even 8K gaming even AMD's most 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:24.900 optimistic advertised numbers here are nowhere near what uhbr10 can do we're 00:03:19.200 --> 00:03:28.860 talking 4K at 480 Hertz and 8K at 165 00:03:24.900 --> 00:03:30.239 Hertz uh I mean it's worth a try but I 00:03:28.860 --> 00:03:34.980 don't think that's going to happen while we're going over the physical attributes 00:03:31.980 --> 00:03:36.959 of the cards power look at that no 00:03:34.980 --> 00:03:41.640 controversial 12 pin power connector dual 8-pin PCIe power connector so you 00:03:39.720 --> 00:03:46.860 won't need an adapter or to change out the cables on your modular power supply 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:50.400 AMD like NVIDIA has opted for a PCI 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:52.200 Express Gen 4 by 16 connector so if you 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:57.540 were hoping to take advantage of your PCIe Gen 5 motherboard in some way it 00:03:55.440 --> 00:04:02.760 will be through storage not through your GPU oh and I admit that having not 00:04:01.260 --> 00:04:06.180 actually paid that close attention to the presentations because 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:12.060 um other people were working on the coverage I do not know if the XTX is 00:04:10.200 --> 00:04:16.859 physically different or not is it this is a little taller it's a 00:04:14.459 --> 00:04:20.900 little taller it's a taller boy if you wanted to know what 55 Watts looks like 00:04:19.019 --> 00:04:26.400 like that that much more this unboxing is brought 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:30.840 to you guys by Bessie Footwear that's right when you get your vessi Footwear 00:04:28.500 --> 00:04:34.680 it'll be a lot newer and cleaner than this uh these are these are old but 00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:39.300 that's good that's good that means they last the Christmas season is upon us 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:43.860 which means that it's a great time to stay warm and dry vessi boasts that 00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:48.600 their sneakers are lightweight easy to pack and feature waterproof materials 00:04:46.320 --> 00:04:52.259 that offer you reassurance when the weather can't their dime attacks 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the first ever triplet GPU there are some functions 00:05:33.180 --> 00:05:39.840 that they can't move off of the main die like compute Hardware Graphics hardware 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:44.280 and display in media engines that main dies built on tsmc's five nanometer 00:05:42.419 --> 00:05:48.120 process so they can pack as much as possible in and they really did I mean 00:05:46.020 --> 00:05:52.139 this thing's got literally twice as many stream processors as AMD's previous 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:58.080 Flagship card but they were able to move their gddr6 controllers and other i o 00:05:55.080 --> 00:06:02.699 functions onto these either 5 for the XT 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:05.580 or six mcds or memory cache dies and the 00:06:02.699 --> 00:06:12.479 reasons for this are twofold one is to save cost and two is to well mostly save 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:17.460 cost because apparently these functions don't really shrink that well so it just 00:06:15.479 --> 00:06:21.479 wasn't worth it from a from a cost perspective so that's the main reason I 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:27.600 guess either way the bandwidth between the gcd so that's the main one and the 00:06:23.819 --> 00:06:31.020 mcds is a whopping what is this 5.3 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:34.620 terabytes a second so that's 900 gigs a 00:06:31.020 --> 00:06:36.479 second per MCD absolutely flipping wild 00:06:34.620 --> 00:06:40.440 one of the other big innovations that AMD has introduced to improve 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:45.240 performance per watt is decoupled clock speeds so they are apparently running 00:06:42.840 --> 00:06:51.660 the shaders and the front end on these gpus at different speeds so the shaders 00:06:49.139 --> 00:06:55.139 are advertised at a game clock of 2.3 gigahertz while the front end is 00:06:53.580 --> 00:07:01.560 expected to hit in the neighborhood of 2.5 is that for both cards or are those 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:08.280 clocks different between the two ah yes that's for the XTX so the XT is in the 2 00:07:05.340 --> 00:07:13.500 to 2.4 gigahertz range the reason for doing this is apparently that by backing 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:16.199 off even just part of the card a little 00:07:13.500 --> 00:07:20.699 bit off of that voltage per frequency curve you can save a ton of power 00:07:18.300 --> 00:07:25.380 without giving up too much in terms of performance AMD has also added dedicated 00:07:22.979 --> 00:07:30.000 AI accelerators to these cards so we're looking at two AI accelerators per 00:07:27.660 --> 00:07:35.940 compute unit but what exactly they're going to be using these for is not clear 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:40.259 at this time to date AMD does not have 00:07:35.940 --> 00:07:42.060 an AI accelerated dlss competitor but I 00:07:40.259 --> 00:07:45.539 would imagine that something like that wouldn't be too far behind if they're 00:07:43.740 --> 00:07:51.240 putting the hardware out for them AMD does have a pretty okay reputation for 00:07:49.440 --> 00:07:56.220 um well there's sort of two ways to look at this not having fully developed 00:07:53.340 --> 00:08:00.900 drivers at launch or or glass half full way of looking at it really squeezing 00:07:58.919 --> 00:08:05.160 extra out of their cards over their lifespan so it's quite possible that we 00:08:03.300 --> 00:08:09.840 will see big improvements to these cards through AI accelerated rendering tricks 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:13.199 over the next few years one thing they're using AI for right out of the 00:08:11.460 --> 00:08:17.460 gate is apparently to help their encoding and decoding performance this 00:08:15.599 --> 00:08:23.460 is something that's been been a bit of a thorn in the side of AMD lovers for the 00:08:19.919 --> 00:08:25.979 last well I mean yeah many years 00:08:23.460 --> 00:08:30.599 actually that NVIDIA's end banking coding engine is just a lot better for 00:08:28.259 --> 00:08:35.339 things like game streaming or even just screen capping so that you can share a 00:08:33.300 --> 00:08:40.680 quick tutorial with your friends I'm really hoping that AMD's h.264 and h.265 00:08:38.640 --> 00:08:44.339 are going to be much better performance than before and more than that I'm 00:08:43.020 --> 00:08:48.959 hoping that I don't have to worry about h.264 and h.265 for much longer because 00:08:46.980 --> 00:08:53.160 av1 will just take over and be the industry standard and AMD's av1 encoder 00:08:51.060 --> 00:08:59.700 will be great and that's that's what I'm really rooting for here the XT has 20 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:02.880 Gigabytes of gddr6 while the XTX has 24 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:04.380 gigabytes of gddr6 and we're expecting a 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:08.459 performance Delta between the two of them of somewhere in the neighborhood of 00:09:06.660 --> 00:09:12.660 uh wait is anybody even talking about that yet damn it AMD the XT is going to 00:09:11.160 --> 00:09:16.080 be slower though I mean look at it it's smaller if the volume is anything to go 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:21.420 by and probably be about say 20 percent 00:09:18.839 --> 00:09:24.060 slower not how that works by the way I think the last big thing you guys need 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:28.320 to know is that these cards are coming December 13th and we are expecting to 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:33.779 have a full performance review with power consumption clock speeds FPS all 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:38.940 that good stuff up at that time so that you guys will know has AMD dethroned 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:43.019 NVIDIA or not well we all know the answer to that even AMD is not comparing 00:09:40.740 --> 00:09:47.399 these cards to the 4090 but come on that's a sixteen hundred dollar card who 00:09:45.060 --> 00:09:50.940 cares if you could have like 4080 performance for 900 or a thousand 00:09:49.740 --> 00:09:57.540 dollars instead of twelve hundred dollars I think you'd be uh maybe not happy but 00:09:55.680 --> 00:10:01.220 you'll take it just like you'll take the end of 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