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now unfortunately i can't really tell you guys

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any of the stuff that we may or may not know yet

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about the GeForce rtx 3080 founders

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edition because i'd be lying if i said that uh it hasn't already been on a test

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bench but what i can do is open up the box for your real nice

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styles this my friends if you have yourself a cool

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699 dollars

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is what will arrive in your homestead so

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let's take a quick look at it this is my first

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hands-on even though it's actually feels still slightly warm from Anthony

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maybe allegedly playing around with it so let's start with oh fine we'll do the

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unboxing thing okay so in here you've got a

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dual eight pin there it is eight pin pci

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express power connectors two single

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miniature 12 pin that's really cool so the new 12 pin is actually

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smaller than the old 8 pin in spite of the fact that it can carry

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significantly more power well that's pretty spicy

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also of course if you've got a modular power supply you don't even need to use

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this you can get fresh new cables from your power supply

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manufacturer assuming that they've got support for it also in here a GeForce support guide

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what do you even put in these quick start look at this

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book it's a novel plug the thing into the thing plug the other thing into the

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thing all right so some of the big features of rtx 3000

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series are of course NVIDIA's new ampere architecture giving us better

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performance in basically every meaningful way from conventional

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games to uh novel concepts like ray traced

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lighting in games or machine learning to upsample rendering the game at a lower

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resolution and then displaying it on a higher resolution screen it's got

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10 gigs of gddr6x video memory which is

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a huge bandwidth boost over the previous gddr6

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and one of the big ones here is of course the extraordinarily

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unconventional cooler design so what we're used to seeing

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is your i o at the back so you've got three DisplayPort and a single HDMI

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2.1 that's right my friends up to 8k resolution

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right down here is the pci express gen 4 16x connector all that looks pretty

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normal so far right up here is the slr no no sli there will be no sli

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except on the rtx 3090 NVIDIA's basically saying well if you want to go

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overkill you might as well go over kill putting what is effectively

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the final nail in the coffin of sli and then in other unusual news

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we've got uh the fan on the back so

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this is pretty normal AMD has even done reference designs NVIDIA has done

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reference designs with fans blowing down towards the pcb

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like this and then exhausting kind of you know out like this or out the back

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so you can see that right here we've never seen a full-on intake fan on

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the back of a card and you know what now that they've done

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it i guess it makes a ton of sense because if you can

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pull air in right here where the fresh air is

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actually coming in from the front of the

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case no i actually still don't understand why

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they didn't just put the fan on this side let me think about this for a minute

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the pcb is here and it's actually it's

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actually shaped like this which is crazy town and then what they've got to

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do is the GPU which is right around here they've actually got to bend the heat

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pipes up and away so you can actually see them there so

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you can't put the fan on this side because the heat pipes have to be here so obviously you got to

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put the fan over on this side because you got your cold air coming in

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here you've got your more conventional style

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fan right here that's just taking that cold air and blowing it

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out the back of the card and then like yeah over here

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a little bit so kind of out like this way okay so you got that

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and then this one is actually a super unconventional design so if you look at

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the uh the design of the blades here it's

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totally different from this fan

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see that conventional fan spins like that blows air down

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this fan spins like i believe it's like

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this yes and pulls air up here so it's so the

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graphics card is basically hogging all the cool air coming into your case and then being like hey CPU

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guess what you're a lower priority for gaming so here you go

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which might actually have an impact on some people's setups depending on how

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borderline they are but unless you're kind of pushing your your

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you know tower cooler to the limit with an overclock or whatever the case may be i

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suspect you'll probably be okay before we go any further

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andy was mentioning that there is some confusion

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about whether this is a reference card now in the past

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it was quite common to release sort of like

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a design guideline pcb founders edition

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cards have sort of been referred to as reference cards

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interchangeably in the past with what made them a founders versus a reference card being

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the fancy aluminum cooler over the last few years

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but NVIDIA is making it very clear that while this

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is a founder's card it is not a reference card and there's a

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separate reference card that doesn't have this unusual shape another thing that we

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wanted to discuss is what this card could potentially mean

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for small form factor enthusiasts because

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the unconventional layout

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uh what with the 45 degree angled 12-pin

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power connector coming out here i guess the the airflow design is pretty

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standard-ish i mean it's all going this way

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which we're used to seeing right

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yeah okay that's that's true

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actually so if you're using anything like a Dan case for example

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then this this airflow is going to be completely blocked

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you'd have to have something more conventional where it's right next to

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the the cooler so anything that uses a pci express riser

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to lay the car down flat you're pretty much going to be stuffed

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water cooling this puppy i'm actually really interested to see how water

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cooling manufacturers approach this challenge so i'll be

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interested to see if they have kind of like ep and extension back plates on them in

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order to make them look a little bit heftier when they're installed the uk

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water block is only 23 centimeters long with that space you

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can pretty much like fit ddc pump in your small form

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factor case that's a design that i'd like to see a

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block for this card that's actually designed with a ddc mount right off of

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the back of it or something like that so you could just have the whole thing

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integrated in the space where normally you would just have a graphics card

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now in terms of performance i can't share anything with you other than what NVIDIA has already published on their

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website which is that they're saying it's way faster than the rtx 2080 and

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even faster than the rtx 2080 ti in spite of not

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even being the kingpin rtx 3000 card

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that's of course the rtx 3090 which is more

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like a titan replacement and i think that's all the time we have for today folks because we got to put

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this thing back on the test bench so we can have our full performance review

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looking at not just performance actually but also some of the new features so dlss

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2.1 which is their latest iteration of their

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up sampling as well as some of their NVIDIA broadcast

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features which are supposed to make life easier for streamers and of course i'm really excited to

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check out their low latency reflex technology and see if my like

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what does it have an effect on image quality in order to give you that

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better click to photon response time we'll have to see

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if we can pick it up and not drop it make sure you're subscribed to ShortCircuit by the way

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it's heavy you know like

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you know wow you know