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AMD has certainly enjoyed the high ground for some time now

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but is it over MSI doesn't think so which is why

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they've sponsored today's video giving us a sneak peek at something really

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exciting take a look at

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this the ge76

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raider big deal you might say sure it comes in a cool etched tmat edition but

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at the end of the day isn't it just yet another Intel NVIDIA laptop

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no no this one is different

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this laptop supports resizable bar like

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AMD does with their smart access memory that means that this Intel CPU

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can access all of this NVIDIA GPU's

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memory at once just like a ryzen and Radeon pairing can

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could this be what Intel needs to fight back against AMD

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i mean honestly speaking i doubt that MSI really gives a flying duck

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they're playing it both ways anyway but this back and forth can only mean more

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laptops flying off the shelves to consumers so

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i guess that's why they're reining marketing funds into this fiery showdown

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just so we're clear this is not a review we're only testing this machine today in

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an on versus off configuration but we

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should still get to know it a little better so that you guys know what to expect and so MSI doesn't get mad at us

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it's got a 17.3 inch 300 hertz ips display that should keep our rtx 3080

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max p busy despite its 1080p resolution

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under the hood ours has a core i7 10878

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32 gigs of ddr4 3200 megahertz RAM and a

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one terabyte NVMe SSD in one of two m.2

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slots it's got a beefy 5 heat pipe cooler for the CPU and GPU that MSI

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calls their cooler boost 5 and feeding the beast is a 280 watt power brick and

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a 99.9 watt hour battery that's let's be

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honest is essential if you're gonna run this thing off the wall especially in

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the extreme performance mode in dragon center in order to toggle resizable bar

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on and off we're going to use an NVIDIA driver that supports it and one that

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doesn't simple er

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unlike these results shadow the tomb raider in traditional

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rendering mode actually got slower with resizable bar enabled and was identical

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when we turned on ray-traced shadows wolfenstein youngblood at least picks up

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a couple of frames at minimum but nothing big and again has little to

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boast about when ray tracing is enabled f1 2020 is a title that saw significant

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performance uplift with smart access memory in our Radeon 6800 review but it

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loses a few minimum frames with resizable bar enabled here while flight

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simulator 2020 does gain a frame or two but just a frame or two

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finally cs go a big winner for smart access memory on AMD sees

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well a tangible increase in minimum frame rates and not much else

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for fun we ran 3dmark to see if the synthetic test might show us more of a

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difference but it was within half a percent either way

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when we move to blender we're once again looking at minimal differences to the

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point where it's tough to say that there's any real difference here at all

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it's a second faster in coup to bmw but then a second slower in optics classroom

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and luxmark has resizable bar losing by about two percent across the board so

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does photoshop with davinci resolve and premiere coming within a single

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percentage point of difference spec view perf 2020 again gives us some

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brutal numbers like we're not far off but across the board it's on par or

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slower than the traditional driver save for catia where it went up a single

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point this all lends a fair bit of credence to AMD's claim that smart

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access memory is more than simply enabling resizable bar support and

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NVIDIA's confidence that they could match AMD's performance improvements

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simply haven't materialized here so

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does resizable bar on Intel and NVIDIA close the gap

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no what yet you're probably sitting there thinking

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this is kind of a weird sponsored video experience so far showing off this crazy

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ball and sexy gaming monstrosity by highlighting how one of its key features

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makes no difference at all but wait there's far more to this story we

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reached out to MSI with our results and they said i'm paraphrasing a little bit

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here well what are you some kind of an idiot this is an early tech preview it's

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only validated under specific circumstances because the ladies and gents in the lab still have a lot of

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work to do you dunce oh you guys

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the good news is that we found one of those cases where resizable bar makes a

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difference for Intel and NVIDIA today in assassin's creed valhalla

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now because we only have one data point and because we don't have an rd and a2

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mobile GPU yet we decided to throw together a desktop GPU bench with an rx

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6800xt to inform our guesses as to what

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the performance differences might look like between team red and team bluish

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green in the future as it turns out team reds still got an advantage off of the

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starting line compared to NVIDIA with roughly double the performance gain

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across the board that's still a significant departure though from the

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rest of our results today and it looks like these improvements scale

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proportionally with the amount of additional power draw that we observed

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this shows that not only is there a lot of room for performance to grow from

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here for laptop manufacturers like MSI there's also an additional benefit being

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able to increase core utilization and keep the CPU working to feed the GPU

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means that you could actually maintain higher performance than you otherwise

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might in a thermally constrained chassis

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and would you look at that this actually bears out when we try testing the ge 76

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raider in silent mode where the cooling system is limited for acoustics and the

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CPU throttles clock speeds more aggressively not only do we get better frame times

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with resizable bar enabled we're getting them at a smaller increase in power

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consumption so in the future you might expect smaller laptops to pack a bigger punch

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thanks to resizable bar and as for the big ones well they'll just get better

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still like our new underwear designs at

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ltdstore.com oh those are the old ones doesn't matter

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the point is speaking of ltc store make sure you get subscribed because yes

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i do know about the counterfeit LTT merch out there and i'm going to have a

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video coming about it very soon back on topic though these performance

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results leave us with some questions like what does resizable bar even do to

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get these kinds of results and why did it take so long to get here resizable

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bar is the official pci sig term for what AMD brands smart access memory

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which allows a CPU to communicate with all of a pci express device's memory at

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once instead of in smaller

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meg chunks which is a big deal because that is 1 64 the size of the frame

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buffer in the rtx 3080 in our ge 76 raider

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while AMD only officially supports smart access memory on their 500 series

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chipsets MSI has been in the news for having enabled resizable bar not only on

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400 series AMD motherboards but on Intel

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motherboards as old as their 300 series which means that owners of cpus as old

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as 8th gen core can get in on the action too now this has been an optional part

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of the pci express specification in some form since at least around 2008 but it's

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never really been thought of as a desktop technology it makes sense i mean

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resizable bar probably wouldn't have even made much of a difference

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even a couple of years ago where on average CPU thread counts weren't as

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high and gpus weren't shipping with tens

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of gigabytes of memory but when AMD moved first with their smart access

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memory for their Radeon 6000 series the industry took notice as the kids say

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it's free real estate and AMD's platform took advantage of it

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out of the gate at least for some games giving them a head start this left Intel

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and NVIDIA scrambling to validate and enable a feature that they were always

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able to turn on but hadn't planned to introduce yet which is where the ge76

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raider came in while it might look like just another gaming laptop it's got that

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RGB right it's going to be among the first with resizable bar support for its 10th gen

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core i7 and rtx 3080 max p once the

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official drivers land and as we've seen rtx 3080s mobile performance can be very

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good so chances are it'll only get better as performance gains like we saw

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today start showing up in more titles and getting embiggened

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and chances are that i'm going to tell you a little more about our sponsor MSI

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here in the sponsorship portion of the video the ge76 raider is their first gaming

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laptop that's equipped with wi-fi 6e it uses a refined chassis with their

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customizable light bar it's got up to an Intel core i9 processor and rtx 3080 max

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p it features their dual wave speakers and woofer with a full hd webcam and of

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course Intel plus NVIDIA resizable bar technology for smoothing out your gaming

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experience you can check it out at the link below and ancient babylonian

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goddesses have never looked so good does anyone know how to read like uniform

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if you guys are looking for another video to watch maybe check out our

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deeper look at smart access memory we're gonna have that linked down below