WEBVTT

00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.720
all right let's use this little piece of foam here not that i need to doesn't the

00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:08.000
phone conduct static electricity

00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:13.519
what's the resolution of the display you're using right now is it

00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:16.560
1080p 720p 1440p

00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:19.279
4k something different if it's 1080p

00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:24.240
then maybe what we're looking at today is for you

00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:25.680
this is AMD's latest and well not

00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:30.080
necessarily greatest attempt at cornering that particular

00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:34.079
market which is currently i think cornered by the gtx 1060. so what does

00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:39.680
emd think they can do when they can't really

00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:44.079
make enough gpus to satisfy existing demand

00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:46.399
that's kind of the point the rx 6800 xt

00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:51.440
and the 6900 xt you know the big boys that are always sold out

00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:52.960
those have a die area of over 500

00:00:51.440 --> 00:01:00.559
millimeters square this has a die area of 234

00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:03.600
i want to say 234 millimeters square that's

00:01:01.199 --> 00:01:08.000
less than half and because of that you can squeeze

00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.640
way more of these dies onto a single

00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.080
wafer that is huge for supply and hopefully

00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:16.960
it'll mean that supply will be better for these cards

00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:21.680
unfortunately that means that you're kind of stuck with a 1080p

00:01:18.479 --> 00:01:22.880
class card like this one so i mean it

00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:27.759
kind of feels like we've been spinning our wheels for the past

00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.720
how many years how many years has it been

00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:33.920
when did 1080p gaming start it was like kepler

00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:39.040
wasn't it like the 600 series and here we are still doing 1080p

00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:42.399
and it's been almost 10 years anyway

00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:43.920
the point is we can do 1080p at faster

00:01:42.399 --> 00:01:47.680
refresh rates than we ever used to be able to and that's kind of what AMD is going for

00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.600
here's 1080p max quality at higher refresh rates or

00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.200
at least that's kind of their i don't know their overarching theme i'm

00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:59.200
guessing i haven't really put this on the bench yet i did unbox it

00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:02.640
earlier sorry but i'm guessing that it'll be able to

00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:06.880
do probably around well at minimum 60 i'm

00:02:05.759 --> 00:02:11.920
i'm hoping for any game that i throw at it but uh

00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:15.599
probably closer to 100 or so so yeah maybe it will be a pretty good

00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:21.360
addition to the armory for any you know gamer that

00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:24.560
wants a graphics card so this particular model is

00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:30.239
asrock's phantom gaming d edition wait did you say vending gaming d

00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:32.480
yes give me the d oh my god

00:02:30.239 --> 00:02:35.519
okay jono this this video is gonna be weird

00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:38.640
i mean especially since i can't i can only unbox this today i can't actually

00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:42.400
run it the oc edition part of this card is going to have some interesting

00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.440
implications for the review it's about five-ish

00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:51.040
percent faster i think than the base clocks

00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:53.599
so it's not that much faster but we'll have to see

00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.720
eight gigabytes of memory that's actually also pretty important for

00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.480
availability we talked about this a little bit in the announcement video

00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:04.400
but the eight gigabytes of vram is actually pretty

00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:06.239
important it's gddr6 but it's using 16 gigabit chips

00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:10.800
and that means that they're not competing with NVIDIA at least not directly for supply because NVIDIA uses

00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:16.239
eight gigabit chips they are competing with the consoles so that's a thing but

00:03:14.239 --> 00:03:19.120
honestly i feel like the consoles probably have a similar allocation

00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:23.840
they can probably take whatever they want because it's AMD they have

00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:27.599
ultimate control over the console's um chips

00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:30.080
so maybe it'll be fine uh

00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:32.879
there's not much else going on in the box here i mean it's telling us all

00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:38.000
about the product specifications which is common

00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:41.840
across mult of the rx 6000 series so we've got three displayport 1.4 ports

00:03:40.239 --> 00:03:44.959
with display stream compression HDMI 2.1 with variable refresh rate

00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:52.159
we've got uh our dna2 architecture of course directx 12 ultimate of course

00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:53.840
uh seven nanometer yay pci express 4.0 i

00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:59.360
mean that's been a thing since the 5000 series like none of this is really mind-blowing or

00:03:57.920 --> 00:04:03.920
anything like that you've got your Radeon image sharpening you've got your Radeon anti-lag you've got Radeon

00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:09.040
software which may or may not be a good thing depending on who you are uh actually it's got more features now

00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:15.280
than i think it ever has and it may have more niche features than

00:04:12.959 --> 00:04:18.400
NVIDIA's GeForce experience does although the

00:04:16.239 --> 00:04:23.120
hardware encoder is still not so good in my opinion that

00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:24.560
apparently is not a universal opinion so

00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.280
take that for what it is anyway let's get this out of the box and see what it

00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:32.800
actually looks like thanks to build redux for sponsoring today's video redux builds pcs for

00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:37.280
gamers that deliver high frame rates without breaking the bank you pay the same price as if you built

00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:40.639
yourself plus a 75 build fee through their online builder

00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:44.320
you can select your budget pick your games see how they perform

00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:47.360
then let them build your pc all builds come with a 2 year warranty

00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:51.520
even if the parts don't click the link in the description and start building your pc today

00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:57.840
good old box in a box

00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:07.199
that's it that's all that's in the box

00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:10.240
yep pro tip for those of you playing along at home who want to do your own

00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:13.759
kind of unboxing experiences don't talk over

00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:19.680
this it makes it kind of difficult for people

00:05:16.479 --> 00:05:19.680
to understand what you're saying

00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:24.720
all right let's use this little piece of foam here not that i need to doesn't the

00:05:23.919 --> 00:05:30.639
phone conduct static electricity so this is the card

00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:35.680
it's actually a lot beefier than i expected i like i saw this

00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:38.320
big chunker of a box here and i'm like

00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:42.880
that's a giant box for a tiny card huh because i figured like it'll be like a

00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:45.919
single slot like one fan kind of thing but no

00:05:43.919 --> 00:05:50.960
this is as rock we're talking about so uh their phantom gaming d

00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:53.440
card has three fans and

00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:57.360
just as many heat pipes i know because i already looked at it

00:05:54.240 --> 00:06:00.560
yeah it's pretty substantial

00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:02.080
i'm actually kind of surprised is this

00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:05.520
part of our contract with dbrand do we have to show this off every time no

00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:09.039
i just like it all right let's see how heavy this thing is

00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:13.840
almost two pounds for those of us in the rest of the world that is

00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:17.120
about 905 grams like i said it's pretty substantial

00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:22.479
for a 1080p card at least there are heavier cards of course

00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:24.720
like the rx 6900xt and the 3090 but

00:06:22.479 --> 00:06:29.360
this is this is pretty beefy although one thing i've noticed

00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:33.039
the backplate is really kind of thin

00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:35.120
and there's not really much that's

00:06:33.039 --> 00:06:39.759
touching it like i think there's a heat there's like a

00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:41.759
thermal pad in here where the GPU is

00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:44.560
but that's about it and the thermal pad is thick because this thing is like you

00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:48.240
can see through there it's offset quite a bit from the cooler

00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:52.400
and from the card even you can see right through it so i think

00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:55.919
it's mostly for aesthetics but there i think there is actually a thermal pad

00:06:54.319 --> 00:07:00.960
right here i don't know we'll have to see how that works out the bulk of the cooling is gonna be this

00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:04.319
double stack tower thing that they've got going on

00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:08.000
here like the card itself ends right here

00:07:07.039 --> 00:07:12.080
like the rest of this this rest of this is just cooler like they could probably have gotten away

00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:20.639
with just that if it was not a factory overclocked card

00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:23.440
oh yeah that fan lights up

00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:29.120
it's RGB that's that's part of the phantom gaming d

00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:31.919
see see on the on the back here

00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:34.880
right there you get the d zero decibels silent cooling

00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:39.520
striped axial fan yeah i guess that's what it is uh stylish metal backplate

00:07:37.039 --> 00:07:41.919
i mean at least okay they do say okay so they say that the stylish metal

00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:45.599
backplate makes the graphics card fancy cool and

00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:53.680
solid so depending on what your definition of cool is this actually does work

00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:54.319
does it say fancy yes it literally says

00:07:53.680 --> 00:08:00.160
fancy right there and they've got their polychrome sync which is addressable RGB

00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:03.759
so you can actually have i'm pretty sure there's like at least

00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:09.199
four maybe five dedicated RGB zones for that fan so uh

00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:13.199
yeah make your make your fancy graphics card even fancier just strike your fancy

00:08:13.599 --> 00:08:19.199
yeah there isn't a reference card this time around this is actually all you get

00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:21.360
um there is a reference board design and i'm kind of disappointed that they

00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:26.240
didn't give us one for review because that means we can't give anyone a baseline

00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:30.240
for performance for this thing but they say oh well you know most of

00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.279
the cards that are going to be released are going to be overclocked anyway so we

00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:38.000
want to give something representative of the market so i can kind of see that but i kind of

00:08:36.719 --> 00:08:42.640
feel like they want to make the numbers seem a little higher than they really should be we'll see how that goes

00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:46.320
anyway i can't take this thing apart because it's under embraco still all i

00:08:44.880 --> 00:08:50.320
can do is show it to you i can't prove that it's like smaller than a 6900

00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:56.320
xt's GPU although i think i'm not sure if we have an aftermarket 6900 xt

00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:59.440
but this pattern seems kind of small you might think well oh let's just take off

00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.279
this backplate with these few screws here no there are actually screws going the

00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:10.000
other way on the other side that you had to take off the heatsink to get at

00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:11.600
why i don't know i'm not mad

00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:15.600
it's not that it's difficult to take apart i could take it apart

00:09:13.760 --> 00:09:18.800
but i don't want to take it apart until it's time to actually

00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:22.080
take it apart after the review after i got all the performance numbers that i need

00:09:20.640 --> 00:09:25.839
i don't want to mess with the stock thermals of this thing i figured you

00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:31.519
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

00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:34.640
wasn't then it's even less of a big deal but no i can't really do anything like

00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:38.320
that because well i need to get performance numbers

00:09:36.959 --> 00:09:42.320
it's it's a difficult launch to sum up as it is right now

00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:46.399
especially without any performance data would i recommend getting this card i

00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:50.160
don't know i don't know yet however i do know that it should at

00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:53.120
least help a little bit with supply you might not think it

00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:56.800
because you're like well why don't they just keep producing 6700 xt's and 6800

00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.399
xt's but the smaller die does make a

00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:04.880
difference many many more of these can be produced

00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:08.959
per wafer than any of those other cards hopefully if you've been waiting for a

00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:14.000
GPU and like maybe your your 1060 is dying and you need something to

00:10:12.160 --> 00:10:18.399
go to but there's nothing maybe this is what

00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:23.120
you're gonna go for as for pricing AMD says 379 that's for the reference

00:10:21.839 --> 00:10:27.120
reference there's no reference but that's for like the the stock

00:10:24.880 --> 00:10:31.360
version of the card but of course that's where the price starts

00:10:28.880 --> 00:10:33.440
this thing if i had to look into a crystal ball

00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:37.600
and tell you what the price of it is i don't actually know yet i would say it's

00:10:35.680 --> 00:10:40.880
probably going to be 429 just based on the fact that it is

00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:46.079
overbuilt and overclocked but you never know

00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:52.079
i might be completely wrong might be 399 might be 419 might be 409 might be

00:10:48.959 --> 00:10:54.079
500 so thanks for watching and

00:10:52.079 --> 00:10:57.040
make sure you get subscribed to see more like or unlike this

00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:59.440
in ShortCircuit we do all kinds of stuff