you've decided you need a GPU doesn't matter the cost doesn't matter that
they're impossible to find or maybe you're from the future and gpus are
everywhere you could pick them up off the ground but you don't know which one
to pick well we're going to help you narrow down your decision by unboxing
three different 80s today and then we're going to drag race them with the help of
JN from Labs let's start with the MSI
Vanguard this is the launch edition the tape is of our own doing the launch
edition comes with um some extra goodies
like a massive box the one that you'll get in the non- launch edition is uh
much more normal and the reason the box is so big is because it comes with a
lucky mystery box so we'll see which
kind of model we get later there's nine different types and one secret type we
also get a card that says welcome on board and an adapter cool we get this
MSI anti- sag stand you kind of screw it
and then you can set the height of your GPU so that it doesn't sag because it
looks like it's going to be freaking huge good Lord look at the size of this
thing it's 14.1 in long and 5.9 in tall
uh and it's about to looks like a four slot maybe three and a half
saw GPU but really that just means it's four slots this is so big we'll see if
this size is going to translate into better thermals and quieter operation it
likely will especially when you consider that the PCB ends here here and the rest
of this is just flow through cooler in terms of looks I like it it's got some
cool carbon fiber as well as some kind of like angular action-y kind of stuff
like this like the curvature of a fan is kind of accentuated I think it does look
pretty cool it is also just so so big
we'll talk a bit more about specs and features when we get the rest of them unboxed our next one is the zotek amp
extreme Infinity 5080 to gaming and Beyond we got documentation oh and we're
right to the card uh it seems that it also comes with a anti-ag bracket we
also have an RGB adapter along with a power adapter let's take a look at the
oh that's heavy or maybe it's just dense I don't know I feel like the MSI one was
probably heavy but it's was much bigger this seems more reasonably sized this is
13.1 by 5.4 and also looks like a triple
slot a little bit more than that so it is quite a bit more compact than the MSI
I think this actually looks much classier this is very nice looking I
think that the color scheme of the kind of gold and uh gunmetal gray looks
pretty cool um it is a dense heat sink
the PCB is definitely I feel like it's longer but you still get an amp a decent
amount of flow through and apparently this is an infinity mirror the only
other thing of note really is that the power connector on this is upside down
compared to the usual implementation with the sense pins on the top uh there's a little button for their
oneclick OC dual BIOS thing and then here's where the RGB plugs in I would
say not the most ideal place to have your RGB cable come out because it's
going to be facing directly towards everyone else it would
have been nice if they could have put it on like this corner or something like
that I you know maybe make like a ribbon cable that runs across it h it is what
it is but you know what this is It's the colorful iame Ultra W which means white
and I think is a cool looking card uh this is the most traditional
packaging of any of them was a awful Noise We got some kind of digitized
spray paint type looking stuff then
inside we get quick materials a white
sleeved power connector which is nice though I will say that the color
matching on the cables is a little bit less than ideal this is really looking
like hockey tape compared to the more pure whites of the rest of the Plastics
the GPU however looks pretty cool a pretty dazzling uh almost uh chromatic
effect to it there's kind of these reflective bits of text on this plastic
see-through shroud now you might think because of what the box looks like that
this would have some sort of lighting behind it it turns out it uh doesn't
that's the picture's just kind of a lie which is kind of a bummer it's 13x 5.5
in and it is a triple slot and maybe a
little bit card on the back you know
kind of disappointing that we have this metal here you won't really see it in
your build but if you were going for all white and youd have like a white PCIe
cover it would be nice to have this kind of match outside of that this is
probably the most compact of the three cards we've looked at and definitely the
most spunky they call it a hipop
aesthetic John calls it Sakura graffiti which is honestly better branding than
what they've come up with it's got a button for Turbo and normal to switch
between the Dual bioses cool well I guess that the last thing we have to do
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in the description each of these cards are OC models and so they all come with
varying different boost clocks the Boost clock of the MSI is 2745 5 but you can
only get that clock speed when you are using their MSI Center app you still get
the highest clocks of any of them without it at 2730 um so but oh those 15 MHz will make
a real difference I'm sure the zot tag is 2670 MHz and the colorful ey game has
a boost clock of 2655 MHz the colorful one despite having the lowest clocks has
the highest power rating at 380 Watts the other two cards are at 360 Watts
which is the same as a Founders Edition card not really sure why okay cyberp
Punk's done let's see how we did and it looks like the best performer was the
Zotac at 156 FPS average the MSI came in
second at 154 FPS and the colorful came
in at 153 interesting that the highest clocked one didn't win but they're all
basically performed the same you'll expect a little bit of variance on the test probably about 2 to 3 FPS so
effectively they're all the same um normally we run the same game multiple
times then average it so there good chance that we'd probably end up with
the same number for all of them well let's try it at 4K and see if that makes a difference yeah cyberpunk 4K 3 2 1 go
it's time for RGB evaluation the MSI I think this looks pretty nice it'll
probably look really good in a case when it's more diffuse this uh little plastic
glowy thing looks cheap it looks like something you'd get on teu the Zotac
light bar simple looks good I wish the
diffusion was a little bit smoother here you can kind of see the individual LEDs
but let's take a look at the infinity mirror it looks cool you're never going
to see it I guess if you have like a fish tank kind of PC like a 01 Dynamic
you would be able to see the uh front of it it would be cooler to have it on the
side I think but still my favorite looking card of the bunch and at the
colorful ey game Ultra while I really do wish there was some sort of RGB on the
face of the card on the side you do get this cool iame Ultra kind of text that
is uh pretty nice though is this like GeForce RTX placement
mandatory it's not maybe it is because I think that
this is a really unfortunate placement for it cuz it's blocking the like RGB
pattern maybe it's not their fault maybe NVIDIA is forcing them to do it that's
why co4 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 so
72.6 on the colorful 72.7 on the zotek and MSI at
71.9 to ooh again these are just average
FPS 1% lows are probably a little bit more important this doesn't give us a 1%
low it does give us a minimum which is the worst at perform this one gets 59.3
2 59.3 4 58.4 4 they're the same GPU and
guess what what they're basically the same as the founders Edition too really
yeah if you look here on the lt2 lab site our 580 Founders Edition did 58 and
73 so basically the same now granted
this is with probably an older version of the game or older driver so but so
it's one FPS you could get potenti for free well or for the price of whatever
these are maybe we'll see a bigger difference in a different game for our next test we are doing returnal at 4K
with epic rate tracing 3 2 1 go while
we're waiting for returnal to run we're going to open our lucky and see what we got John says he wants the Shanghai
lucky I want the Boba lucky or the mystery lucky cuz I want to know what it
is we got Hollywood lucky wow let's look at
the results 77 77
77 if there was a question as to like whether any of these different models
have an appreciable performance Delta out of the box not really the main thing
that you're going to be considering when you're buying one of these gpus is the features like do you like the way it
looks do you enjoy having the uh extra dual biosis do you enjoy the software
that it comes packaged in MSI has a far more robust software suite than zotek or
colorful but maybe you want something that's more lightweight other things to
consider are just the size of them MSI is huge whereas the zotek is and the
colorful are far more reasonable even though they are also still large however
there's one more consideration that we need to take into account and that's thermals we did some thermal testing in
advance and we just tested them as they were out of the box which meant that the
MSI was in a silent BIOS the Zotac was in its OC BIOS and the colorful was in
its default BIOS so performance could
vary we also didn't adjust fan Prof FS or anything like that either and in F1
we saw the Zotac pulling an average of 66° C with a Max of 67° C the
colorful 62° C and 64° C and the MSI was
at an average of 62 and Max of 65 this
is still well below the 80° limit before they start Cards start downclocking
Johnny I don't know if you agree but they're not loud no the the fan that
you're actually hearing right now is actually just the noct to a fans
thermally it seems that all of these cards do a pretty dang good job of
keeping the card cool I do want to see
how annoying they get if we crank the fans up though so let's Tinker this is
the sound of the zotte it's not that bad I have a 7900
XTX it's a obviously a much smaller card it's only a two slot card but the fans
at full speed are way whinier than this
and I'd say that this is like obviously quite loud not pleasant but by default
they'll never run like this and uh um I've just heard worse let's see what the
colorful sounds like it's got the most whoosh it sounds the most like white
noise though I think it's probably the most Pleasant of all of them there is a
slight high-pitched resonance like
a it's like it's like but mostly it's just a whoosh noise which is actually
pretty Pleasant and finally the MSI
card it is I think quieter than the Zotac and perhaps overall a little bit
lower of a pitch I don't know if it comes through but there is kind of this like very high-pitched whistling that's
like that's happening that you don't hear when it's running slower it's
really subtle you might not even notice it uh in a case or something like that
definitely the Zotac is the loudest I will say the Zotac is the worst sounding
and the loudest which is a bit of a bummer cuz it looks so dang classy but
also you probably don't need to run your fans at 100% ever on a cooler this big
your mileage may vary so they're all essentially the same mhm so how do you
you choose a card I'd say probably Aesthetics and cost over anything on top
of watching media reviews you should also look up owner reviews because
there's some things that we just can't test like how is this card going to be after six seven months of the fans
running all the time how expensive are these current pricing is still pretty
gnarly the MSI comes in at
$1,440 and the zot comes in at $1450 so
$10 more both of those prices are really gnarly considering that this was
supposed to be a $1,000 car give or take the aib tax the colorful
however is not available in North America and depending on the region you're buying it in it can be anywhere
from $1,200 to
$1,700 that is insane so I think I agree
with you I would probably pick the zotek as well mainly cuz I am a sucker for
Aesthetics uh if I could get that for 1,200 I would deal with it the way it
looks that was a lot to get through and if you want more GPU reviews to help
determine which one you should buy you can go check out lot lots of reviews on
the LTT laabs website LTT Labs.com these
ones will be coming soon there they're not up yet but keep an eye out thanks
for watching ShortCircuit this is the first time we've done a video in this kind of format 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 check out our oscilloscope unboxing that we did just a couple weeks
ago