WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:08.240 lus wake up the radio 970 announcement just dropped come on that's right AMD 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:12.920 finally announced those gpus that were first spotted in full retail packaging 00:00:10.440 --> 00:00:17.600 weeks ago and I can't believe I'm saying this but it's even more exciting than I 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:22.600 dared to hope for now we had some idea what was coming of course rdna 3.5 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:26.400 showed a solid uplift over rdna 3 in handhelds we got to look at some version 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:32.640 of the ray tracing upgrades in the PlayStation 5 Pro and obviously AI was 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:35.200 going to be a big Focus but now it's all 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:39.760 coming together in a single package literally they're back to using a 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:41.640 monolithic die I'm talking allnew rdna 4 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:45.640 architecture an enhanced media engine third gen raid tracing accelerators 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:53.039 second gen AI accelerators powering FSR 4 upscaling and 16 gigs of vram at 00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:59.440 $599 and the best part if they've been shipping these things for 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:01.320 months maybe stock perhaps I'm almost 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:07.479 afraid to jins it but for the first time and as long as I can remember AMD might 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:10.680 not have screwed up a GPU launch like 00:01:07.479 --> 00:01:10.680 I'm going to screw up this 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:18.640 uh sco to our 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:20.920 Spooner next too their allnew Aurora Pro 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:26.079 Mark I projector improves on their first generation with a 4,000 to1 contrast 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:31.840 ratio and support for all major HDR formats learn more today at the link in 00:01:28.360 --> 00:01:31.840 the video description 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:45.560 feels like we've been waiting forever for rdna 4 but good things come to those 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:48.960 who wait right and personally I'm glad that AMD let their Engineers cook we're 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:53.880 going to dive a lot deeper when our review goes live next week but for now 00:01:51.399 --> 00:01:59.520 AMD is promising some big uplifts in performance per clock claiming that each 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:02.119 CU or compute unit should be about 40% 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:07.479 faster than rdna 3 for those of you who are keeping score at home 40% is a lot 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:11.720 and it supposedly comes courtesy of improved scaler units and dynamic 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:15.640 register allocation they've also got an enhanced memory subsystem which will 00:02:13.640 --> 00:02:20.200 supposedly help with the compute portions of Ray tracing workloads now 00:02:17.959 --> 00:02:24.200 it's too early to say if AMD has fully closed the Gap with NVIDIA when it comes 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:28.959 to Ray tracing but it seems like they're at least promising a major improvement 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:32.800 over their last generation accelerators on top of the memory stuff they've added 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:36.920 a second Ray intersection engine to allegedly double throughput for Ray box 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:40.720 and Ray triangle testing there's a dedicated Hardware block for Ray 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:45.159 transformation and a new hardware accelerator feature that they call 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:49.200 oriented bounding boxes that's a lot of jargon but what it pretty much boils 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:54.599 down to is this thing should trace your rays a lot better and I'm pretty excited 00:02:52.239 --> 00:02:58.760 about it even if the real world result doesn't quite match up with NVIDIA's 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:02.959 latest I'm also excited about AMD's new AI accelerators 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:09.720 okay I'm not that excited about it but someone is maybe even you with only 16 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:14.480 gigs of vram a piece the two cards that am revealed today won't be able to 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:18.799 handle larger models but the claimed performance improvements for the models 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:22.640 that they can handle are pretty big thanks to more math pipelines and 00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:28.080 expanding the capabilities of their AI accelerators AMD is claiming a two times 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:32.760 performance uplift in fp16 and four times in int 8 compared to rdna 3 as for 00:03:31.239 --> 00:03:39.200 how that translates to real world results they showed some slides later 00:03:34.920 --> 00:03:41.720 comparing the 970 XT to the 7900 GRE and 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:45.760 it does look pretty impressive and who knows maybe you'll actually use the AI 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:49.840 features that AMD is coming out with like the optional image inspector which 00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:55.200 is an algorithm that monitors game frames and looks for image corruption 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:59.239 during gameplay and the AMD 00:03:55.200 --> 00:04:01.040 chat oh good it's a local large language 00:03:59.239 --> 00:04:06.560 model that can supposedly help you configure your GPU and tune it neat like 00:04:04.760 --> 00:04:11.120 how you can keep your desk setup neat with Magnetic Cable Management from LTT 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:16.400 store.com speaking of things looking nice the image quality improvements to 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:18.280 the media engine look great if their 00:04:16.400 --> 00:04:21.720 slides are to be believed you could actually stream to Twitch with one of 00:04:19.880 --> 00:04:26.040 these cards without it looking like hot garbage let's just hope that along with 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:31.880 the better encoding that they finally fixed that weird 1082 P Hardware 00:04:29.320 --> 00:04:38.680 encoding bug um regardless of that they've also promised 8K 80fps encode 00:04:34.919 --> 00:04:41.120 and decode support for hvc av1 and h264 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:45.759 accelerated post-processing effects and no limit on the number of sessions or 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:50.880 encoding streams Team Green meanwhile locks this behind their professional 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:54.320 card pay wall so uh good guy AMD but 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:57.919 also darn it AMD let's take a look at 00:04:54.320 --> 00:05:01.160 the hardware the 9070 and the 9070 XT 00:04:57.919 --> 00:05:03.400 are two surprisingly different cards 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:09.160 they both appear to use the same die they're both equipped with 16 gigs of 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:12.720 memory on a 256-bit bus but the XT is 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:16.680 clocked way higher at darn near 3 GHz 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:18.639 and pulls a whopping extra 84 Watts on 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:25.919 top of that it has eight more compute units and RT accelerators and 16 more AI 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:28.400 accelerators for an extra 392 tops all 00:05:25.919 --> 00:05:35.840 of which would be totally fine if the 9070 wasn't priced a mere $50 lower AMD 00:05:32.919 --> 00:05:41.400 you're doing the thing again the 7900 XT got terrible reviews at launch because 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:44.080 it was only $100 less than the XTX and 00:05:41.400 --> 00:05:48.360 it was way slower months later you discounted it when it wasn't selling and 00:05:46.280 --> 00:05:54.199 it picked up but the reviews were already out of the gate there's still 00:05:49.960 --> 00:05:57.160 time to fix this though $4.99 do it do 00:05:54.199 --> 00:06:04.080 it anywh who both cards regardless are quite Future Ready feature-wise with PCI 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:07.000 Express Gen 5 interfaces HDMI 2.1b and 00:06:04.080 --> 00:06:14.240 DisplayPort 2.1a although it is worth noting that not all DP 2.1a ports are 00:06:10.479 --> 00:06:16.520 made equal and amds support only 54 GB 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:21.240 per second compared to the 80 gbit pers second on NVIDIA's 50 Series in daily 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:26.080 use this is unlikely to matter much since these cards aren't really expected 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:30.319 to be as powerful as NVIDIA's top gpus and with display stream compression you 00:06:27.880 --> 00:06:36.560 should still be able to run a 4K 240 HZ monitor but it is worth noting but what 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:40.880 should we expect performance-wise well 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:42.000 thanks to FSR 4 maybe a lot as per usual 00:06:40.880 --> 00:06:45.400 you're going to have to wait for the reviews to drop from ourselves and 00:06:43.919 --> 00:06:49.880 others next week before you pull the trigger if their image comparisons are 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:54.160 real and I don't have reason yet to believe they're not real the image 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:59.680 quality has improved so much that maybe you won't mind bumping down from quality 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:01.960 mode to Performance AMD like NVIDIA is 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:06.479 leaning on AI and neural rendering for this and they're calling it Fidelity F 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:11.160 super resolution for ML powered upscaling this was teased almost a year 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:16.599 ago and hey it looks like it's finally here the only issue is the lack of early 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:21.440 support they've got a decent list of 30 plus games at launch with over 75 more 00:07:18.840 --> 00:07:25.919 on the way for 2025 and I would expect that to grow but don't buy promises buy 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:30.160 what you can use today because there's no telling if your favorite game will or 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:36.720 won't end up being supported a feature that does support a much more sizable 00:07:32.599 --> 00:07:38.879 1,000 plus games list is hyper RX sort 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:43.680 of it's a one-click solution that's been around for a while now and enables 00:07:40.479 --> 00:07:45.680 features like anti-ag boost and FSR with 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:51.479 fluid motion frames 2.1 joining that roster and more coming soon in 2025 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:55.759 however since not all of those games benefit from every single one of those 00:07:53.280 --> 00:08:00.240 features your performance improvements will vary on a game to game basis and 00:07:58.599 --> 00:08:05.000 not everyone is a fan of frame generation regardless of whether those 00:08:02.039 --> 00:08:10.159 frames are green fake frames or red fake frames speaking of Team Green Let's talk 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:15.199 about availability cuz after all who gives a single flying about anything 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:19.960 that AMD said today if the cards can't be bought I mean I was super excited 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:23.599 about the 50 Series until they were proven to be made out of unobtanium so 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:29.120 you'll have to forgive me for being a little jaded but I mean these cards have 00:08:27.520 --> 00:08:35.399 been in the hands of retailers for months we saw samples at CES in early January 00:08:32.839 --> 00:08:42.360 with our own eyes I've got one in my hand now so when AMD says wide 00:08:38.839 --> 00:08:45.480 availability March 6 2025 there's a 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:47.760 small small Ray of Hope inside me that 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:52.600 hasn't quite withered and died yet and wants so desperately to believe them so 00:08:50.760 --> 00:08:57.600 For the Love of All that is good please Andy please don't this up if this is 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:01.760 another paper launch it'll just be my 13th reason why the GPU mark market 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:07.480 right now is terrible and Gamers should Despair and I don't want another reason 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:09.600 like Intel's b580 came out and booed my 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:14.279 spirits it's a great budget card it's just that it's hard to find at or near 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:18.760 MSRP and then NVIDIA's 50 Series has been trickling out into the market as if 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:24.880 each one of them is artisanally whittel out of silicon by like one guy gamers 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:31.160 want reasonably price cards they want them now and AMD guys you've got a real 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:36.839 opportunity to gain actual market share here as long as your cards aren't buggy 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:38.959 and don't melt but hey good news AMD 00:09:36.839 --> 00:09:42.800 claims that this launch will be the best driver support they've ever had and 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:46.720 considering how much they've been delayed apparently I actually kind of 00:09:45.160 --> 00:09:50.880 believe that they've given the software team some extra time to cook and they 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:55.440 even say they've also improved their processes new AI optimized internal 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:59.079 testing increased number of hardware test configurations in the lab and a new 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:03.680 bug report tool that's loaded directly into the driver will hopefully lead to a 00:10:01.760 --> 00:10:09.120 smoother launch experience but will it be a little smoother or a lot to 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:13.000 smoother we can't know until thousands of credit cards have been swiped and 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:20.519 thousands of gpus have played thousands of games and also output thousands of LT 00:10:17.160 --> 00:10:22.920 Segways to our sponsor nexigo do you 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:27.920 know what 6.3 in can give you the ultimate home Cinema experience nexxo is 00:10:25.760 --> 00:10:32.519 about to release their new Aurora Pro Mark I an Ultra a short throw 4K 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:38.600 projector that brings big screen magic into just about any space all you need 00:10:34.959 --> 00:10:41.720 is 6.3 in of distance from the wall 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:43.839 meaning hey it just got closer bigger 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:49.519 and better it's the upgraded version of the original Aurora Pro delivering an 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:52.240 0.21 to1 throw ratio with a 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