all right let's use this little piece of foam here not that i need to doesn't the
phone conduct static electricity
what's the resolution of the display you're using right now is it
1080p 720p 1440p
4k something different if it's 1080p
then maybe what we're looking at today is for you
this is AMD's latest and well not
necessarily greatest attempt at cornering that particular
market which is currently i think cornered by the gtx 1060. so what does
emd think they can do when they can't really
make enough gpus to satisfy existing demand
that's kind of the point the rx 6800 xt
and the 6900 xt you know the big boys that are always sold out
those have a die area of over 500
millimeters square this has a die area of 234
i want to say 234 millimeters square that's
less than half and because of that you can squeeze
way more of these dies onto a single
wafer that is huge for supply and hopefully
it'll mean that supply will be better for these cards
unfortunately that means that you're kind of stuck with a 1080p
class card like this one so i mean it
kind of feels like we've been spinning our wheels for the past
how many years how many years has it been
when did 1080p gaming start it was like kepler
wasn't it like the 600 series and here we are still doing 1080p
and it's been almost 10 years anyway
the point is we can do 1080p at faster
refresh rates than we ever used to be able to and that's kind of what AMD is going for
here's 1080p max quality at higher refresh rates or
at least that's kind of their i don't know their overarching theme i'm
guessing i haven't really put this on the bench yet i did unbox it
earlier sorry but i'm guessing that it'll be able to
do probably around well at minimum 60 i'm
i'm hoping for any game that i throw at it but uh
probably closer to 100 or so so yeah maybe it will be a pretty good
addition to the armory for any you know gamer that
wants a graphics card so this particular model is
asrock's phantom gaming d edition wait did you say vending gaming d
yes give me the d oh my god
okay jono this this video is gonna be weird
i mean especially since i can't i can only unbox this today i can't actually
run it the oc edition part of this card is going to have some interesting
implications for the review it's about five-ish
percent faster i think than the base clocks
so it's not that much faster but we'll have to see
eight gigabytes of memory that's actually also pretty important for
availability we talked about this a little bit in the announcement video
but the eight gigabytes of vram is actually pretty
important it's gddr6 but it's using 16 gigabit chips
and that means that they're not competing with NVIDIA at least not directly for supply because NVIDIA uses
eight gigabit chips they are competing with the consoles so that's a thing but
honestly i feel like the consoles probably have a similar allocation
they can probably take whatever they want because it's AMD they have
ultimate control over the console's um chips
so maybe it'll be fine uh
there's not much else going on in the box here i mean it's telling us all
about the product specifications which is common
across mult of the rx 6000 series so we've got three displayport 1.4 ports
with display stream compression HDMI 2.1 with variable refresh rate
we've got uh our dna2 architecture of course directx 12 ultimate of course
uh seven nanometer yay pci express 4.0 i
mean that's been a thing since the 5000 series like none of this is really mind-blowing or
anything like that you've got your Radeon image sharpening you've got your Radeon anti-lag you've got Radeon
software which may or may not be a good thing depending on who you are uh actually it's got more features now
than i think it ever has and it may have more niche features than
NVIDIA's GeForce experience does although the
hardware encoder is still not so good in my opinion that
apparently is not a universal opinion so
take that for what it is anyway let's get this out of the box and see what it
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that's it that's all that's in the box
yep pro tip for those of you playing along at home who want to do your own
kind of unboxing experiences don't talk over
this it makes it kind of difficult for people
to understand what you're saying
all right let's use this little piece of foam here not that i need to doesn't the
phone conduct static electricity so this is the card
it's actually a lot beefier than i expected i like i saw this
big chunker of a box here and i'm like
that's a giant box for a tiny card huh because i figured like it'll be like a
single slot like one fan kind of thing but no
this is as rock we're talking about so uh their phantom gaming d
card has three fans and
just as many heat pipes i know because i already looked at it
yeah it's pretty substantial
i'm actually kind of surprised is this
part of our contract with dbrand do we have to show this off every time no
i just like it all right let's see how heavy this thing is
almost two pounds for those of us in the rest of the world that is
about 905 grams like i said it's pretty substantial
for a 1080p card at least there are heavier cards of course
like the rx 6900xt and the 3090 but
this is this is pretty beefy although one thing i've noticed
the backplate is really kind of thin
and there's not really much that's
touching it like i think there's a heat there's like a
thermal pad in here where the GPU is
but that's about it and the thermal pad is thick because this thing is like you
can see through there it's offset quite a bit from the cooler
and from the card even you can see right through it so i think
it's mostly for aesthetics but there i think there is actually a thermal pad
right here i don't know we'll have to see how that works out the bulk of the cooling is gonna be this
double stack tower thing that they've got going on
here like the card itself ends right here
like the rest of this this rest of this is just cooler like they could probably have gotten away
with just that if it was not a factory overclocked card
oh yeah that fan lights up
it's RGB that's that's part of the phantom gaming d
see see on the on the back here
right there you get the d zero decibels silent cooling
striped axial fan yeah i guess that's what it is uh stylish metal backplate
i mean at least okay they do say okay so they say that the stylish metal
backplate makes the graphics card fancy cool and
solid so depending on what your definition of cool is this actually does work
does it say fancy yes it literally says
fancy right there and they've got their polychrome sync which is addressable RGB
so you can actually have i'm pretty sure there's like at least
four maybe five dedicated RGB zones for that fan so uh
yeah make your make your fancy graphics card even fancier just strike your fancy
yeah there isn't a reference card this time around this is actually all you get
um there is a reference board design and i'm kind of disappointed that they
didn't give us one for review because that means we can't give anyone a baseline
for performance for this thing but they say oh well you know most of
the cards that are going to be released are going to be overclocked anyway so we
want to give something representative of the market so i can kind of see that but i kind of
feel like they want to make the numbers seem a little higher than they really should be we'll see how that goes
anyway i can't take this thing apart because it's under embraco still all i
can do is show it to you i can't prove that it's like smaller than a 6900
xt's GPU although i think i'm not sure if we have an aftermarket 6900 xt
but this pattern seems kind of small you might think well oh let's just take off
this backplate with these few screws here no there are actually screws going the
other way on the other side that you had to take off the heatsink to get at
why i don't know i'm not mad
it's not that it's difficult to take apart i could take it apart
but i don't want to take it apart until it's time to actually
take it apart after the review after i got all the performance numbers that i need
i don't want to mess with the stock thermals of this thing i figured you
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
wasn't then it's even less of a big deal but no i can't really do anything like
that because well i need to get performance numbers
it's it's a difficult launch to sum up as it is right now
especially without any performance data would i recommend getting this card i
don't know i don't know yet however i do know that it should at
least help a little bit with supply you might not think it
because you're like well why don't they just keep producing 6700 xt's and 6800
xt's but the smaller die does make a
difference many many more of these can be produced
per wafer than any of those other cards hopefully if you've been waiting for a
GPU and like maybe your your 1060 is dying and you need something to
go to but there's nothing maybe this is what
you're gonna go for as for pricing AMD says 379 that's for the reference
reference there's no reference but that's for like the the stock
version of the card but of course that's where the price starts
this thing if i had to look into a crystal ball
and tell you what the price of it is i don't actually know yet i would say it's
probably going to be 429 just based on the fact that it is
overbuilt and overclocked but you never know
i might be completely wrong might be 399 might be 419 might be 409 might be
500 so thanks for watching and
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