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all right let's use this little piece of foam here not that i need to doesn't the

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phone conduct static electricity

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what's the resolution of the display you're using right now is it

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1080p 720p 1440p

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4k something different if it's 1080p

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then maybe what we're looking at today is for you

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this is AMD's latest and well not

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necessarily greatest attempt at cornering that particular

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market which is currently i think cornered by the gtx 1060. so what does

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emd think they can do when they can't really

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make enough gpus to satisfy existing demand

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that's kind of the point the rx 6800 xt

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and the 6900 xt you know the big boys that are always sold out

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those have a die area of over 500

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millimeters square this has a die area of 234

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i want to say 234 millimeters square that's

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less than half and because of that you can squeeze

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way more of these dies onto a single

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wafer that is huge for supply and hopefully

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it'll mean that supply will be better for these cards

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unfortunately that means that you're kind of stuck with a 1080p

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class card like this one so i mean it

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kind of feels like we've been spinning our wheels for the past

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how many years how many years has it been

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when did 1080p gaming start it was like kepler

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wasn't it like the 600 series and here we are still doing 1080p

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and it's been almost 10 years anyway

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the point is we can do 1080p at faster

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refresh rates than we ever used to be able to and that's kind of what AMD is going for

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here's 1080p max quality at higher refresh rates or

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at least that's kind of their i don't know their overarching theme i'm

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guessing i haven't really put this on the bench yet i did unbox it

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earlier sorry but i'm guessing that it'll be able to

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do probably around well at minimum 60 i'm

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i'm hoping for any game that i throw at it but uh

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probably closer to 100 or so so yeah maybe it will be a pretty good

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addition to the armory for any you know gamer that

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wants a graphics card so this particular model is

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asrock's phantom gaming d edition wait did you say vending gaming d

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yes give me the d oh my god

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okay jono this this video is gonna be weird

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i mean especially since i can't i can only unbox this today i can't actually

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run it the oc edition part of this card is going to have some interesting

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implications for the review it's about five-ish

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percent faster i think than the base clocks

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so it's not that much faster but we'll have to see

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eight gigabytes of memory that's actually also pretty important for

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availability we talked about this a little bit in the announcement video

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but the eight gigabytes of vram is actually pretty

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important it's gddr6 but it's using 16 gigabit chips

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and that means that they're not competing with NVIDIA at least not directly for supply because NVIDIA uses

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eight gigabit chips they are competing with the consoles so that's a thing but

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honestly i feel like the consoles probably have a similar allocation

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they can probably take whatever they want because it's AMD they have

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ultimate control over the console's um chips

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so maybe it'll be fine uh

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there's not much else going on in the box here i mean it's telling us all

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about the product specifications which is common

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across mult of the rx 6000 series so we've got three displayport 1.4 ports

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with display stream compression HDMI 2.1 with variable refresh rate

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we've got uh our dna2 architecture of course directx 12 ultimate of course

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uh seven nanometer yay pci express 4.0 i

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mean that's been a thing since the 5000 series like none of this is really mind-blowing or

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anything like that you've got your Radeon image sharpening you've got your Radeon anti-lag you've got Radeon

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software which may or may not be a good thing depending on who you are uh actually it's got more features now

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than i think it ever has and it may have more niche features than

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NVIDIA's GeForce experience does although the

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hardware encoder is still not so good in my opinion that

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apparently is not a universal opinion so

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take that for what it is anyway let's get this out of the box and see what it

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good old box in a box

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that's it that's all that's in the box

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yep pro tip for those of you playing along at home who want to do your own

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kind of unboxing experiences don't talk over

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this it makes it kind of difficult for people

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to understand what you're saying

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all right let's use this little piece of foam here not that i need to doesn't the

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phone conduct static electricity so this is the card

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it's actually a lot beefier than i expected i like i saw this

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big chunker of a box here and i'm like

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that's a giant box for a tiny card huh because i figured like it'll be like a

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single slot like one fan kind of thing but no

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this is as rock we're talking about so uh their phantom gaming d

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card has three fans and

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just as many heat pipes i know because i already looked at it

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yeah it's pretty substantial

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i'm actually kind of surprised is this

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part of our contract with dbrand do we have to show this off every time no

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i just like it all right let's see how heavy this thing is

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almost two pounds for those of us in the rest of the world that is

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about 905 grams like i said it's pretty substantial

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for a 1080p card at least there are heavier cards of course

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like the rx 6900xt and the 3090 but

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this is this is pretty beefy although one thing i've noticed

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the backplate is really kind of thin

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and there's not really much that's

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touching it like i think there's a heat there's like a

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thermal pad in here where the GPU is

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but that's about it and the thermal pad is thick because this thing is like you

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can see through there it's offset quite a bit from the cooler

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and from the card even you can see right through it so i think

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it's mostly for aesthetics but there i think there is actually a thermal pad

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right here i don't know we'll have to see how that works out the bulk of the cooling is gonna be this

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double stack tower thing that they've got going on

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here like the card itself ends right here

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like the rest of this this rest of this is just cooler like they could probably have gotten away

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with just that if it was not a factory overclocked card

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oh yeah that fan lights up

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it's RGB that's that's part of the phantom gaming d

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see see on the on the back here

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right there you get the d zero decibels silent cooling

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striped axial fan yeah i guess that's what it is uh stylish metal backplate

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i mean at least okay they do say okay so they say that the stylish metal

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backplate makes the graphics card fancy cool and

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solid so depending on what your definition of cool is this actually does work

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does it say fancy yes it literally says

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fancy right there and they've got their polychrome sync which is addressable RGB

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so you can actually have i'm pretty sure there's like at least

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four maybe five dedicated RGB zones for that fan so uh

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yeah make your make your fancy graphics card even fancier just strike your fancy

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yeah there isn't a reference card this time around this is actually all you get

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um there is a reference board design and i'm kind of disappointed that they

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didn't give us one for review because that means we can't give anyone a baseline

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for performance for this thing but they say oh well you know most of

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the cards that are going to be released are going to be overclocked anyway so we

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want to give something representative of the market so i can kind of see that but i kind of

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feel like they want to make the numbers seem a little higher than they really should be we'll see how that goes

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anyway i can't take this thing apart because it's under embraco still all i

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can do is show it to you i can't prove that it's like smaller than a 6900

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xt's GPU although i think i'm not sure if we have an aftermarket 6900 xt

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but this pattern seems kind of small you might think well oh let's just take off

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this backplate with these few screws here no there are actually screws going the

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other way on the other side that you had to take off the heatsink to get at

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why i don't know i'm not mad

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it's not that it's difficult to take apart i could take it apart

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but i don't want to take it apart until it's time to actually

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take it apart after the review after i got all the performance numbers that i need

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i don't want to mess with the stock thermals of this thing i figured you

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know i could take the back plate off and see if that was a thermal pad if it was and that's no big deal if it

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wasn't then it's even less of a big deal but no i can't really do anything like

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that because well i need to get performance numbers

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it's it's a difficult launch to sum up as it is right now

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especially without any performance data would i recommend getting this card i

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don't know i don't know yet however i do know that it should at

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least help a little bit with supply you might not think it

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because you're like well why don't they just keep producing 6700 xt's and 6800

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xt's but the smaller die does make a

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difference many many more of these can be produced

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per wafer than any of those other cards hopefully if you've been waiting for a

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GPU and like maybe your your 1060 is dying and you need something to

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go to but there's nothing maybe this is what

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you're gonna go for as for pricing AMD says 379 that's for the reference

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reference there's no reference but that's for like the the stock

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version of the card but of course that's where the price starts

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this thing if i had to look into a crystal ball

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and tell you what the price of it is i don't actually know yet i would say it's

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probably going to be 429 just based on the fact that it is

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overbuilt and overclocked but you never know

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i might be completely wrong might be 399 might be 419 might be 409 might be

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500 so thanks for watching and

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