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You've decided you need a GPU, doesn't matter the cost, doesn't matter that they're impossible to find,

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or maybe you're from the future and GPUs are everywhere.

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You could pick them up off the ground, but you don't know which one to pick.

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Well, we're gonna help you narrow down your decision by unboxing three different 5080s today,

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and then we're gonna drag race them with the help of John from Labs.

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Let's start with the MSI Vanguard. This is the launch edition.

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The tape is of our own doing. The launch edition comes with some extra goodies,

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like a massive box. The one that you'll get in the non-launch edition

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is much more normal. And the reason the box is so big is because it comes with a lucky mystery box.

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So we'll see which kind of model we get later. There's nine different types and the one secret type.

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We also get a card that says welcome on board and an adapter, cool.

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We get this MSI anti-sag stand.

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You kind of screw it and then you can set the height of your GPU so that it doesn't sag

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because it looks like it's gonna be fricking huge.

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Good Lord. Look at the size of this thing.

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It's 14.1 inches long and 5.9 inches tall.

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And it's about to looks like a four slot,

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maybe three and a half slot GPU, but really that just means it's four slots.

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This is so big. We'll see if this size is going to translate

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into better thermals and quieter operation. It likely will, especially when you consider

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that the PCB ends here and the rest of this is just flow through cooler.

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In terms of looks, I like it. It's got some cool carbon fiber

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as well as some kind of like angular actiony kind of stuff. Like this, like the curvature of a fan is kind of accentuated.

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I think it does look pretty cool. It is also just so, so big.

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We'll talk a bit more about specs and features when we get the rest of them unboxed. Our next one is the Zotec AMP Xtreme Infinity 5080.

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To gaming and beyond, we got documentation.

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Oh, and we're right to the card. It seems that it also comes with a anti-sag bracket.

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We also have an RGB adapter along with a power adapter.

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Let's take a look at the, oh, that's heavy.

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Or maybe it's just dense. I don't know. I feel like the MSI one is probably heavy, but it was much bigger.

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This seems more reasonably sized. This is 13.1 by 5.4

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and also looks like a triple slot a little bit more than that.

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So it is quite a bit more compact than the MSI. I think this actually looks much classier.

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This is very nice looking. I think that the color scheme of the kind of gold

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and gunmetal gray looks pretty cool.

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It is a dense heat sink. The PCB is definitely, I feel like it's longer,

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but you still get an amp, a decent amount of flow through. And apparently this is an Infinity mirror.

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The only other thing of note really is that the power connector on this is upside down

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compared to the usual implementation with the sense pins on the top. There's a little button

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for their one click OC dual BIOS thing. And then here's where the RGB plugs in.

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I would say not the most ideal place to have your RGB cable come out

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because it's going to be facing directly

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towards everyone else. It would have been nice if they could have put it on like this corner

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or something like that. I, you know, maybe make like a ribbon cable

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that runs across it. And it is what it is.

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But you know what this is? It's the colorful iGameUltra W, which means white.

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And I think is a cool looking card.

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This is the most traditional packaging of any of them.

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That was a bit awful noise. We got some kind of digitized spray paint type looking stuff.

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Then inside we get quick materials,

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a white sleeved power connector, which is nice.

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Though I will say that the color matching on the cables

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is a little bit less than ideal. This is really looking like hockey tape

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compared to the more pure whites of the rest of the plastics.

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The GPU, however, looks pretty cool. A pretty dazzling, almost a chromatic effect to it.

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There's kind of these reflective bits of text on this plastic see-through shroud.

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Now you might think because of what the box looks like that this would have some sort of lighting behind it.

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It turns out it doesn't. That's the pictures just kind of a lie,

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which is kind of a bummer. It's 13 by 5.5 inches and it is a triple slot

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and maybe a little bit card on the back.

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You know, kind of disappointing that we have this metal. Here you won't really see it in your build,

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but if you were going for all white and you'd have like a white PCIe cover,

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it would be nice to have this kind of match. Outside of that, this is probably the most compact

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of the three cards we've looked at and definitely the most spunky.

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They call it a hip hop aesthetic. John calls it Sakura Graffiti,

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which is honestly better branding than what they've come up with.

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It's got a button for turbo and normal switch between the dual bioses.

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Cool. Well, I guess that the last thing we have to do is get them running.

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Each of these cards are OC models and so they all come with varying different boost clocks.

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The boost clock of the MSI is 2745, but you can only get that clock speed

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when you are using their MSI center app. You still get the highest clocks of any of them

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without it at 2730, but all those 15 megahertz will make a real difference.

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I'm sure the Zotag is 2670 megahertz and the Colorful iGame has a boost clock of 2655 megahertz.

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The Colorful one, despite having the lowest clocks, has the highest power rating at 380 watts.

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The other two cards are at 360 watts, which is the same as a Founders Edition card.

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Not really sure why. Okay, cyberpunk's done, let's see how we did.

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And it looks like the best performer was the Zotag at 156 FPS average.

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The MSI came in second at 154 FPS and the Colorful came in at 153.

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Interesting that the highest clocked one didn't win, but they're all basically performed the same.

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You'll expect a little bit of variance on the test, probably about two to three FPS,

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so effectively they're all the same. Normally we run the same game multiple times,

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then average it, so it's a good chance that we'd probably end up with the same number for all.

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Well, let's try it at 4K and see if that makes a difference. Yeah.

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Cyberpunk 4K, three, two, one, go. It's time for RGB evaluation.

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The MSI, I think this looks pretty nice. It'll probably look really good in a case

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when it's more diffuse. This little plastic glowy thing looks cheap.

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It looks like something you'd get on Timu. The Zotac light bar, simple, looks good.

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I wish the diffusion was a little bit smoother here. You can kind of see the individual LEDs,

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but let's take a look at the Infinity Mirror. It looks cool.

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You're never gonna see it. I guess if you have like a fish tank kind of PC,

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like a O11 dynamic, you would be able to see the front of it.

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It would be cooler to have it on the side, I think,

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but still my favorite looking card of the bunch. And the Colorful iGame Ultra,

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while I really do wish there was some sort of RGB on the face of the card,

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on the side you do get this cool iGame Ultra kind of text

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that is pretty nice though. Is this like GeForce RTX placement mandatory?

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It's not. Maybe it is.

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Because I think that this is a really unfortunate placement for it because it's blocking the like RGB pattern.

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Maybe it's not their fault. Maybe NVIDIA is forcing them to do it. That's why I call GeForce.

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Oh my, that's a good one, Andy. Let's look at the results in 4K and it is even closer than it was in 1440p.

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So 72.6 on the Colorful,

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and MSI at 71.92, ooh.

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Again, these are just average FPS, 1% lows are probably a little bit more important.

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This doesn't give us a 1% low, it does give us a minimum, which is the worst it performed.

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This one gets 59.32, 59.34, 58.44.

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They're the same GPU. And guess what? What?

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They're basically the same as the Founder's Edition too. Really? If you look here on the LTT Labs site,

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our 5080 Founder's Edition did 58.73.

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So basically the same. Now granted, this is with probably an older version

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of the game or older driver. So, but...

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So that's one FPS you could get. Potentially. For free.

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Well, or for the price of whatever these are. Maybe we'll see a bigger difference in a different game.

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For our next test, we are doing Returnal at 4K with Epic Ray Tracing.

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Three, two, one, go. While we're waiting for Returnal to run,

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we're gonna open our lucky and see what we got. John says he wants the Shanghai Lucky.

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I want the Boba Lucky or the Mystery Lucky because I want to know what it is.

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We got Hollywood Lucky.

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Wow. Let's look at the results. 77, 77, 77.

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If there was a question as to like, whether any of these different models

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have an appreciable performance delta out of the box,

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not really. The main thing that you're gonna be considering when you're buying one of these GPUs is the features.

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Like, do you like the way it looks? Do you enjoy having the extra dual biosis?

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Do you enjoy the software that it comes packaged in? MSI has a far more robust software suite

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than Zotac or Colorful, but maybe you want something that's more lightweight.

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Other things to consider are just the size of them. MSI is huge.

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Whereas the Zotac and Colorful are far more reasonable,

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even though they are also still large. However, there's one more consideration

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that we need to take into account. And that's thermals. We did some thermal testing in advance

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and we just tested them as they were out of the box, which meant that the MSI was in a silent BIOS,

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the Zotac was in its OC BIOS, and the Colorful was in its default BIOS.

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So performance could vary. We also didn't adjust fan profiles

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or anything like that either. And in F1, we saw the Zotac pulling an average

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of 66 degrees Celsius with a max of 67 degrees Celsius.

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The Colorful, 62 degrees Celsius and 64 degrees Celsius.

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And the MSI was at an average of 62 and max of 65.

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This is still well below the 80 degree limit before they start card start downclocking.

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Johnny, I don't know if you agree, but they're not loud. No, the fan that you're actually hearing right now

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is actually just the knock to a fans. Thermally, it seems that all of these cards

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do a pretty dang good job of keeping the card cool.

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I do want to see how annoying they get if we crank the fans up though.

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So let's tinker. This is the sound of the Zotac.

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It's not that bad. I have a 7900 XTX.

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It's obviously a much smaller card. It's only a two slot card,

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but the fans at full speed are way whineier than this.

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And I'd say that this is like obviously quite loud, not pleasant, but by default, they'll never run like this.

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And I've just heard worse. Let's see what the Colorful sounds like.

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It's got the most whoosh. It sounds the most like white noise though.

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I think it's probably the most pleasant of all of them. There is a slight high-pitched resonance.

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Like it. It's like a whoosh, but mostly it's just a whoosh noise,

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which is actually pretty pleasant. And finally, the MSI card.

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It is, I think, quieter than the Zotac and perhaps overall a little bit lower of a pitch.

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I don't know if it comes through, but there is kind of this like very high-pitched whistling

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that's like do, do, do, do, do, do. It's happening that you don't hear

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when it's running slower. It's really subtle. You might not even notice it in a case

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or something like that. Definitely the Zotac is the loudest. I will say the Zotac is the worst sounding and the loudest,

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which is a bit of a bummer because it looks so dang classy. But also, you probably don't need to run your fans

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at 100% ever on a cooler this big. Your mileage may vary.

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So they're all essentially the same.

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So how do you choose a card? I'd say probably aesthetics and cost over anything.

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On top of watching media reviews, you should also look up owner reviews

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because there's some things that we just can't test. Like how was this card gonna be after six, seven months of the fans running all the time?

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How expensive are these? Current pricing is still pretty gnarly. The MSI comes in at $1,440

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and the Zotac comes in at $1,450. So $10 more.

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Both of those prices are really gnarly considering that this was supposed to be a $1,000 card.

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Give or take the AIB tax. The colorful, however, is not available in North America.

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And depending on the region you're buying it in, it can be anywhere from $1,200 US dollars to $1,700 US dollars.

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That is insane. So I think I agree with you.

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I would probably pick the Zotac as well, mainly because I am a sucker for aesthetics.

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If I could get that for $1,200, I would deal with it the way it looks.

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That was a lot to get through. And if you want more GPU reviews to help determine which one you should buy,

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you can go check out lots of reviews on the LTT Labs website, LTTLabs.com.

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These ones will be coming soon there. They're not up yet, but keep an eye out.

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Thanks for watching ShortCircuit. This is the first time we've done a video in this kind of format.

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So let us know in the comments if you liked it. And if you did like it and you want to watch more stuff with Labs,

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check out our oscilloscope unboxing that we did just a couple of weeks ago.