1 00:00:07,439 --> 00:00:15,519 welcome to a very exciting unboxing the new single GPU graphics card King is 2 00:00:12,519 --> 00:00:17,560 here this is the GeForce GTX 680 from 3 00:00:15,519 --> 00:00:24,680 Galaxy it's got a three-year warranty 2 gigs of gddr5 memory at 6 4 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:26,480 GHz uh features direct X11 as have the 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:31,800 last couple of generations of GeForce graphics cards SLI fizx and 3D Vision 6 00:00:29,519 --> 00:00:37,760 something that is not mentioned on the box though that it also supports is 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:41,440 NVIDIA surround in 3D Vision off of a 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,120 single card so uh NVIDIA has added that 9 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:48,000 functionality to their card you can hook up up to four displays in three gaming 10 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:52,320 plus one auxiliary and you can have 3D division 11 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:55,440 running at the same time off a single card so hold on let's see if there's 12 00:00:53,719 --> 00:01:00,199 anything going on here ah yes key features NVIDIA GPU boost more on that 13 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:07,000 in a moment adaptive vertical syn is cool because what it allows you to do is 14 00:01:04,199 --> 00:01:12,479 turn on NVIDIA's adaptive vertical SN so vsync as you guys may or may not know 15 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:16,400 will prevent tearing so that is those artifacts that look like you got half of 16 00:01:14,439 --> 00:01:21,759 one frame and half of another frame sort of slightly offset as you turn in game 17 00:01:19,479 --> 00:01:26,799 or or move around in game so vsync prevents that but also locks your frame 18 00:01:23,479 --> 00:01:29,560 rate at 60 FPS and it can cause some uh 19 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:34,960 you know Mouse leg and stuff like that so adaptive vsync turns vsync on to 20 00:01:32,759 --> 00:01:40,560 prevent tearing and then off when your frame rate is below 21 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:44,600 60 so what that means is that when you're below 60 what can happen a lot of 22 00:01:42,479 --> 00:01:50,079 the time is you'll be locked into a frame rate that is a multiple of 60 like 23 00:01:46,759 --> 00:01:54,439 30 or 20 or 15 instead of running at you 24 00:01:50,079 --> 00:01:56,039 know 42 or 25 so you'll be able to 25 00:01:54,439 --> 00:02:01,759 squeeze the most performance out of your card when it's not running at 60 FPS but 26 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,560 be locked at 60 when it is capable of it 27 00:02:01,759 --> 00:02:07,399 in order to prevent tearing so that's kind of a neat feature man that was 28 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:10,599 really tight in there okay let's keep going here NVIDIA surround which I 29 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:15,319 mentioned already four concurrent displays including two dual link DVI 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:18,400 HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 this card also 31 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:21,319 includes support for 4K displays so that 32 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:29,080 is super high resolution displays direct X11 with direct compute 5.0 fiz X yes 33 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:32,080 cool 3D Vision SLI Cuda PCI Express 3.0 34 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:35,239 this is the first PCI Express 3.0 35 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:37,879 graphics card from NVIDIA's 36 00:02:35,239 --> 00:02:42,080 Partners it's suggesting a minimum of 550 W power supply but what you guys are 37 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,000 going to find out about this when I do my review on it which is probably going 38 00:02:43,519 --> 00:02:50,040 to go up around the same time as this unboxing is that the power consumption 39 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,480 is actually phenomenal for a high-end 40 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:58,640 card so thank you for purchasing something something set up easy quick steps for quick installation guide and 41 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:01,080 whatnot okay cool and then we've got the 42 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:04,680 card itself so let's hold on let's see what galaxy includes in terms of 43 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:09,599 accessories and then we'll start talking about some of the additional technology 44 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:16,239 points that I want to cover about this graphics card here we go if I can figure 45 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:23,560 out how this comes apart ah very nice okay so we have a DVI to VGA 46 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:27,680 adapter we have two Molex to single PCIe 47 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:30,040 6 pin two Molex to single PCI six pin 48 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:34,200 that's funny guys high-end graphics card two six pin adapters we'll more on that 49 00:03:32,239 --> 00:03:38,599 in a moment uh graphics card driver installation disc download the latest as 50 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:45,200 well as a user manual okay so fairly straightforward accessory package 51 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:51,470 here nice packaging overall though looks 52 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:59,060 good very black all right now the card 53 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:10,680 okay now in terms of its physical appearance it's a very similar looking 54 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:13,079 to a GTX 580 in terms of its size in 55 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:16,239 terms of the the cooler although there are some subtle differences but let's 56 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:22,160 have a look at the overall physical aspects of the card first so we've got two SLI connectors meaning this card 57 00:04:19,639 --> 00:04:26,720 does support three-way or four-way SLI there's our little Galaxy sticker it's 58 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:30,240 got a green GeForce GTX thing going on unlike the GTX 590 it doesn't look like 59 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:35,240 it lights up or anything but it does look pretty sharp I'll give them that 60 00:04:32,039 --> 00:04:38,360 this is cool check this out two six pin 61 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:40,160 PCIe connectors also what NVIDIA's done 62 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:43,840 by putting the two six pin PCIe connectors in the same place is they've 63 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:48,160 bought themselves some extra room on the PCB to do other things you can see 64 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:54,000 actually oh look at this looks like it'll be up to uh it'll 65 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:57,080 be up to oh that's bizarre it looks like either they changed their mind at some 66 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:01,400 point between having a six and an eight pin and then they did like two six pins 67 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,000 but then looks like you could either put them here and here or here and here 68 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:08,080 maybe it's up to the board Partners at some point in the future to decide how 69 00:05:06,759 --> 00:05:11,600 they want to implement it but there you go this is the OEM One and NVIDIA says 70 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,280 that bought them some room for additional PCB components versus doing 71 00:05:14,039 --> 00:05:22,120 it the other way it should also be fairly tidy to Cable manage this way because you can either come up in one 72 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:25,960 column or down in one column from a cable management hole so that's very 73 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:30,319 very cool we've got the usual NVIDIA blower style fan that we find on most 74 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:34,800 OEM cards with Galaxy's graph on the Shroud itself on the back of the 75 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:38,600 card we find not a whole lot we find the PCB is Right flush with the cooler this 76 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:45,440 is something that's very confusing to me about AMD cards and that is uh why AMD 77 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:49,440 insists on continuing to do this where they have the PCB ending here and then 78 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:54,080 they just have an additional like random bunch of plastic that makes the card 79 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:59,199 unnecessarily up to a centimeter longer than it actually is I ran into trouble 80 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:01,919 installing that 7970 into a shuttle xpc 81 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:07,599 barebone the other day because of that extra overhang there so NVIDIA does not 82 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,280 do that here's our PCI Express 3.0 16x 83 00:06:07,599 --> 00:06:15,160 slot so that's capable of up to two times the bandwidth of a PCI Express 2.0 84 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:19,039 16x slot on the back we find a bunch of other components and whatnots so you can 85 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:24,280 see where the RAM chips are installed all on the other side there's no shroud 86 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:26,759 on the back of this card so you can see 87 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:30,800 the bare components you can see the GPU is right under there and then on the 88 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:36,000 back we find the io so there's our two dual link DVI uh this guy is a dvii this 89 00:06:34,039 --> 00:06:41,520 is a DVI D so the difference is that this one supports analog output we've 90 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,160 got HDMI as well as DisplayPort 1.2 and 91 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:48,440 then we've got a little vent here and a bigger vent here and this is kind of cool check this out so you guys see how 92 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:52,800 far away the cooling fins are in there can you see that really um the actual 93 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,879 fins cooling the GPU I guess that's kind of tough isn't it okay I'll try and get 94 00:06:54,520 --> 00:07:00,039 you guys a better angle okay can you see in there how they're angled they're 95 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:03,840 swept back like that yeah excellent okay so NVIDIA's done 96 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:09,319 that for a very specific reason it gives some Dead Space Between the actual fins 97 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,720 of the GPU heat sink and the Shroud at 98 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:16,840 the back so this is much like using a spacer on a radiator in order to 99 00:07:14,039 --> 00:07:22,000 eliminate uh any kind of dead zones and as well as to more evenly push out the 100 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:27,479 air so so you give the air a little bit of room to to accumulate and then come 101 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:31,879 out evenly so I'm not describing this in the best possible terms honestly it's 102 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:36,240 late and I'm tired but but the point is that it you are able to exhaust air more 103 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:41,840 efficiently with less resistance from the see the the metal pieces in the 104 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,199 Shroud and it's generally better some of 105 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:47,120 the air is going to come out into your case so there's a gap here there's a gap 106 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:51,000 here but most of the exhaust from this blower design is going to go out the 107 00:07:49,159 --> 00:07:55,120 back of the case so if you do have a case that doesn't have great ventilation 108 00:07:53,120 --> 00:08:02,720 this is usually a better choice than going with uh the more typical 109 00:07:57,479 --> 00:08:02,720 aftermarket designs that you see such as 110 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:11,919 uh ah these kinds of dual fan implementations that blow all the air 111 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,800 into the case all right moving on here 112 00:08:11,919 --> 00:08:20,360 so what else what else we got here ah GPU boost so this card has 195 wat TDP 113 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:23,759 so that is thermal design power and what that means is that the clock speed 114 00:08:22,479 --> 00:08:27,879 whenever you're designing a graphics card you want a particular thermal 115 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:31,360 envelope that you have to meet that the reason is a for power delivery you have 116 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:36,399 to make sure that it's going to be within spec and B for heat dissipation 117 00:08:34,279 --> 00:08:41,399 so you can only dissipate so much heat with your reference cooler you don't 118 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:42,680 want the uh the actual GPU to start uh 119 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:48,320 producing more heat than you can dissipate because then you're going to run into trouble okay so what that means 120 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:53,480 is that when you design a graphics card you go okay I can apply this much voltage I can apply this much clock 121 00:08:50,959 --> 00:08:57,080 speed and it stays within this TDP now NVIDIA took a bit of an Innovative 122 00:08:54,959 --> 00:09:02,760 solution that uh may or may not have been inspired by something like Intel's 123 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:05,959 uh turbo boost and that is they allow 124 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:08,320 their GPU to turn its clock speed up in 125 00:09:05,959 --> 00:09:14,320 less demanding games and applications to achieve overclocked 126 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:16,880 settings on its own so their GPU boost 127 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:25,000 technology is capable of taking the 1,06 MHz clock speed up to five 128 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:27,120 typically 5% or as much as 10% above 129 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:31,399 that stock clock speed as long as it stays within the thermal design 130 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:36,480 specification so that's one really cool feature GPU boost okay FXAA has been 131 00:09:34,839 --> 00:09:40,720 added to the NVIDIA control panel so this is a faster form of anti-aliasing 132 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:44,000 and you can now force it on in games even the ones that don't support it so 133 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:48,959 that's a really neat thing as well we already talked about adaptive vsync txaa 134 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:52,640 modes 1 and two so NVIDIA claims and I'm going to be hopefully taking a look at 135 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:57,040 this in the future that mode one is about equivalent to a times AA with the 136 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:01,880 performance hit of only two times anti-aliasing and mode two provides 137 00:10:00,079 --> 00:10:06,720 significantly better image quality than mode one with only the performance hit 138 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:10,399 of four times um multi- sampling anti-aliasing so the more traditional 139 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:16,360 kind so that's really neat as well we've covered 3.1 3+1 displays 4K monitors 140 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:20,600 support better physics performance uh nvnc so video encoding Hardware can run 141 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:24,839 faster than the Cuda based Solutions in the past and can also run concurrently 142 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:29,959 with the Cuda course on the graphics card so you can allow the Cuda course to 143 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:32,760 handle pre-processing while the nvnc so 144 00:10:29,959 --> 00:10:36,240 nvn I guess that's short for encoder uh can handle the encoding the three heat 145 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:39,839 pipe dual slot fan I guess we can't really see that but the way this works 146 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:43,560 is instead of using a vapor chamber like we've seen with a couple previous uh 147 00:10:41,839 --> 00:10:48,959 generation graphics cards from both sides uh which is just like a big long 148 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:51,079 kind of like a big Square very flat heat 149 00:10:48,959 --> 00:10:55,279 pipe it uses three heat pipes one in an S shape and then two in C shapes coming 150 00:10:53,519 --> 00:11:00,200 out from the GPU to keep things nice and flat to evenly distribute heat to the 151 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:04,760 aluminum fins inside finally it has 1,532 Kuda cores it 152 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:08,480 clocked at oh I mentioned this sort of briefly but it's clocked at just over 1 153 00:11:06,519 --> 00:11:14,959 GHz stock speed although it'll boost up from there as well as 6 GHz on the 154 00:11:11,079 --> 00:11:17,399 memory and finally another cool thing 155 00:11:14,959 --> 00:11:22,639 about GPU boost is that it will actually scale with overclocking on the card so 156 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:27,360 you can overclock your stock speed and your GPU boost will actually scale up 157 00:11:24,959 --> 00:11:31,600 from there as well and while I haven't tested it yet I'm really hoping to to 158 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:36,120 see some interesting overclocking results with this particular GPU so 159 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:41,160 NVIDIA claims two times the performance per watt of the two generations ago 160 00:11:38,839 --> 00:11:46,680 Flagship GTX 480 meaning we've got significantly better performance at uh 161 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:51,880 what is apparently with based on the 195 wat TDP significantly better power 162 00:11:49,839 --> 00:11:55,440 consumption so that means us SLI users out there are in for a treat because 163 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:59,720 your power bill is about to go down when you upgrade to a couple of these puppies 164 00:11:57,519 --> 00:12:02,680 so I think that pretty much much covers it thank you for checking out my 165 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:07,959 unboxing and first look at the GeForce GTX 680 from Galaxy and don't forget to 166 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:11,200 subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos