I was feeling really tired earlier today. Then I had this Razer Respawn gum, and
wow, I feel so just so up and at it now.
So basically, what we're doing here today is
AMD has released a 3D model of their new
RDNA Big Navi GPU into Fortnite.
So, in order to have the best possible look at it, we're going to be using an
RTX 2080. So, let's do it.
The best part about this is that you get to just find out how bad I am at
Fortnite. I played it like a tiny bit when it was new a couple uh
years ago. And I was really bad, and I didn't have
fun. Do you guys know anything about Fortnite?
No. He's getting headshakes.
Okay, okay, you guys can't see what I'm doing here, can you? No.
I have literally no clue what's going on. I'm like in a store right now.
The how I just want to go back. Custom options. Oh, figured out. Did it.
Okay, yep, who's still got it? This guy right here. Um
got uh this tweet right here from Radeon.
86519841639.
Boom. Wait, I entered that, but now what do I do?
Can't use custom matchmaking for this Oh jeez.
All right, found the only person that's in the office right now that knows how to use Fortnite. So, you want to make a
creative like a new map, or do you want to like just open up I want to just open
up one. Um Pretty sure you're just supposed to
click this, and then you can do it while you're in. Just edit edit button.
Okay. Edit button. Use
uh building edit G.
Unable to edit building. Huh. What if you try plugging in a
controller and seeing what happens?
Yes. There you go. Sweet! Code. There you go.
Thank you so much. You're welcome, man.
Think I figured it all out. So,
Too mad did some voodoo, not totally sure what,
but then it involved plugging in a controller, which I guess
is an odd glitch that sometimes you're able to interact with these things with
a mouse and keyboard. Makes sense. I would have figured that one out on my
own, for sure. And now we are in right here. It's a big
AMD-looking lobby. And
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There we go. We are on top of the new
Radeon RX 6000.
That's 6900, I'm guessing. 6800, one of
the two. So, apparently, this GPU, according to just rumors, this is kind
of pure speculation, is going to have 80 compute units, which
translates to 5120 shaders.
For some context, the RTX 3070 is going
to have 5888. So, this
likely will be slightly less powerful
than that. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. So, one of the biggest reason
that I think this GPU might be fantastic
is that NVIDIA's current cards are very
aggressively priced and very fast, according to what they've
said. We haven't actually seen the numbers yet, but or I haven't seen the
numbers. People in this office have, but I personally haven't. But given that
NVIDIA's, you know, delivering that much value,
one can only speculate that AMD is also, you know, kicking some butt. Cuz
otherwise, like why would they do that? Now, it also might just be that instead
of these GPUs being what NVIDIA's worried about, it could just be people
going for the consoles. Now, what we can actually see here is not a whole lot.
I'm on a massive PCI Express
riser. I'm going to say it's safe to assume
this is not to scale. If I just jump off the side here, will I go back to the
start? Oh my god, I just swam.
Well, there's the underside of the graphics card. So, what we can see is it
looks like a pretty, you know, standard placement. It looks like the PCB is
going to run for the whole length of the card.
And pretty standard like base amount and for the cooler.
So, it should be pretty easy for people like EK, AlphaCool, whoever,
to, you know, fix up water blocks for this. Wow, I'm kind of flying with
control now. Oh, we can look at the IO.
So, what do we have here? We have an HDMI, presumably 2.1. Is that the new
hotness, or is it 2.2? It's 2.1. 2.1. So, that's presumably 2.1.
We also have two display ports and one of the VR ports.
That looks about it, but at the same time, that's kind of what you'd expect. I'm surprised it's not perforated up
here to allow kind of like air to come out of it. Although, it is a pretty
beefy cooler. And how beefy is the power supply going
to have to be? All right, here we have two eight-pins.
So, it's going to be pretty power-hungry,
but not insanely so. Like, we're not talking about like 3090 levels of bonker
towns. And pretty standard like, you know,
triple-fan card layout. I wouldn't expect anything too too crazy from
layout like this. Unfortunately, you can't see how many heat pipes there are. That's kind of like the amount of fans
on a lot of things like this matters a lot less than just the thickness and the
number of heat pipes. I guess that's kind of how you really know what's up. I
wonder what these are. Uh I have no clue what these little pins
are for. Maybe just debugging. I I could be
totally wrong. It says Radeon.
I hope that it glows in the final one. It's not glowing right now.
Fans look very standard. We've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 fins.
My plan was to look at how many fins this GPU has, but then I remember it's
water-cooled, so rip. Yeah, that's
that's about it. That's kind of all you can see.
So, I guess what other rumors do we have about this thing?
One thing that is interesting is that this is quite a beefy cooler, and
there's quite a bit of power. And it's rumored that RDNA 2 {slash} Big Navi is
going to have 50% more performance per watt. So, hopefully, AMD is doing the
same sort of thing as NVIDIA, where they're not being like "Oh, we got, you
know, this extra power budget because we made our processor more efficient."
Whereas, instead, it's going to be much more like "We got this more power budget, so we
can feed it some more power, right?" And then everybody's like, "Yes." And
then you get more frames, and it's just as hot, and your room becomes a sauna
after 20 minutes of gaming. It's too bad that we can't see any of the PCB or heat
plates at all. It's just a black square. I guess that we are just kind of feeding
into the hype like if you're thinking about NVIDIA RTX 3000 right now,
maybe just hold off. See how well AMD does. That's definitely what they want
me to say right now. For me personally, this right here looks
like it's going to be a pretty banging card,
but if the drivers don't work, who cares?
That's kind of like my biggest if in all of this.
Like, we kind of saw what they did last time, and it was like what, 3 months of
black screening? The good news is, though,
that this same architecture is going to be going to the Xbox Series 1 and the
PS5. They're going to be working with like, you know, all of the big game
developers to make their games run really well on this hardware in the
consoles. So, one would think that, you know, you just
take more of that hardware and put it in a PC, and hopefully, it will work pretty
good. Maybe. We'll see. Either way, we don't have like a time frame of when
this will be coming out. Wait. They announce when they're announcing it.
When's the announcement date of the announcement? October 8th, 2020
is when AMD will be announcing
the announcement time, I think.
Beautiful. Oh my god.
It's magnificent. What happened? Some guy just joined the
server and is just I think he needs a change of pants after
looking at this. Well, I'm excited. Mark's excited. He's a Mac user. Oh. Oh,
yeah. This will be great for anyone that's on Apple. You might be able to have like
a GPU now, or like just a GPU that like
is good. I don't know how high my hopes are,
but they're a lot higher than they were before NVIDIA's announcement, so that's
a plus. Um anyway, I hope that you guys have a great day. I don't know. Get on
the Big Navi hype train. And just, I don't know, go on AMD subreddit and be
like, "Wow." Be like the guy on the surfboard here,
being like, "It's beautiful." Anyway, have a just have a great day. I'll I'll
talk to you later.