WEBVTT 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:09.920 So today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the all-new Radeon 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:13.120 HD60970. So I'm going to start with a bit of an explanation of a couple 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:18.240 things. First of all, I'm going to explain the numbering scheme on this 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:21.000 card. So AMD used to have a numbering 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:28.560 scheme that went okay uh 5970 was their highestend dual GPU card 00:00:25.279 --> 00:00:32.960 and then 5870 was their fastest single 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:34.960 GPU card and then 5850 was the the next 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:39.280 one down and then 5770 was a different class of GPU. That used to be how it 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:44.399 worked. Now with the 6000 series they've actually changed it. So the 6870 is not 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:49.600 the replacement for the 5870. I've seen some confusion in the comments under my 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:51.399 videos about this concept. The 6870 is 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:56.399 actually the replacement for the 5770 and the 00:00:53.480 --> 00:01:00.079 6970 is the price point replacement for the 00:00:57.800 --> 00:01:04.400 5870. And then there will actually be another card coming later that will be a 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:09.520 dual GPU solution because that's AMD's whole strategy is build a scalable GPU 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:13.600 at a reasonable size with reasonable power so that you can slap two of them 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.920 together. Cool stuff. All right, so the 6T970, first thing we're going to 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:21.439 notice, it has 2 gigs of DDDR5. So, what that means is you have double the frame 00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:25.680 buffer, bigger textures, all that good stuff. In terms of performance, it's 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:28.799 hard to say how much of a performance difference there is right now, but I've 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:34.720 got a feeling we might be able to compare it to a 1 gig version further on 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:36.720 down the line. Now, the only 2 gig 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:41.119 version we had of the 5870 was actually the Iffinity 6 edition, as well as a 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:44.960 couple custom cards. And uh it did make a small impact on that particular card, 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:48.159 but this one's faster, so we might see more of a difference. It's a Gigabyte 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.680 card, so it comes with a 3-year warranty in the US and Canada. And here we have a 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:56.240 convenient list of all of the features that you need to know about. Full 00:01:53.439 --> 00:02:01.280 DirectX11, AMD Infinity multi-dis technology, hence the multi-dis behind 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:03.600 me. Uh supports up to four monitors, although I don't know that that's 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:09.520 necessarily the recommended configuration. Uh supports PCI Express 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:12.959 2.1, 1080p full HD. Duh. supports this, 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:16.720 never mind 1080p AMD HD 3D technology, 00:02:12.959 --> 00:02:19.920 including HDMI 1.4A for 3D Blu-ray and 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:21.959 7.1 HD surround sound over HDMI as well 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:26.040 as DisplayPort 1.2. Okay, let's see if there's anything 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:31.599 else relevant on the back. Oh, yeah, tessellation. So, the 6000 series is all 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:36.560 about tessellation performance. That's one of the ways that these new graphics 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:42.480 cards are going to significantly improve performance, and I mean destroy over the 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:47.519 5000 series cards. One of the other things that AMD has really beefed up is 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:51.360 the anti-aliasing capability of this particular graphics card. We've got a 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:57.280 couple new modes that are going to basically without um a huge impact on 00:02:55.440 --> 00:03:01.800 performance allow you to either have higher quality anti-aliasing or cheaper 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:06.560 that is less performance impact anti-aliasing. Here's a driver CD. Throw 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:10.319 it away. Here is a manual. Read through it and then keep it or throw it away. I 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:15.200 guess it doesn't really matter to me. Next, we have adapters. So, uh based on 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:19.760 the fact that we have a dual Molex to six pin and a dual Molex to 8 pin. By 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:23.120 the way, this is a lot smarter than most of the eight pin adapters I see, which 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:28.239 are dual six pin to 8 pin, which is ridiculous. Dual Molex to 8 pin. That 00:03:25.519 --> 00:03:31.400 makes sense. Good job, Gigabyte. That is a good thing to include. We have a 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:36.080 Crossfire bridge, standard length for standard 00:03:34.239 --> 00:03:39.840 spacing motherboards. Any of the non-standard ones should come with their 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:44.080 own Crossfire bridge anyway. And then we have the card itself. It's quite heavy 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:51.080 actually. It's a lot of lot of weight to it for a uh single GPU AMD card. So, 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:54.000 let's go ahead and get this baby opened 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:56.640 up. Got our anti-static baggie with a piece of tape 00:03:57.480 --> 00:04:05.360 here. And we will see the 6970 in all 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:07.280 its glory. That is a beastly looking 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:12.480 card. I really like Gigabytes graphics on here. I know that in a lot of cases 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:16.959 you can't really see the the VGA sticker, but I'm going to go ahead and 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:21.199 say, "Yeah, I I really like it anyway because it matters to me cuz I'm shallow 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:25.440 like that." All right. So, in terms of the overall look of the card, it's very 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:29.840 similar to the 6870. We've got that same distinctive black and white, black and 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:33.600 white, red and black stripe thing going on on the top of the card. We have a 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:37.680 ventilation hole here. So, something to be aware of. And I did see some comments 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:42.880 about this in that build I did in the Fractal Design Define R3 with two 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:46.240 high-end GPUs is that if you have an exhaust here and you have a side fan 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:50.240 kind of over it, you want to make sure that's going out rather than like 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:54.160 pushing against the natural air flow direction of the card. So that was why I 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:59.600 had done it that way. And we've also got two Crossfire bridges for support uh 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:03.919 with support for either up to three-way Crossfire X. Okay. Here for here, let's 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:08.080 look at the power as well. Uh here we've got, as I mentioned before, one six pin, 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:13.120 one 8 pin power connector. So this is quite a beefy card. And there seems to 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:18.880 be some kind of a DIP switch here. That's interesting. I know that um it 00:05:15.919 --> 00:05:24.080 can be used for flashing the BIOS, but I don't know what else it's good 00:05:21.400 --> 00:05:27.759 for. Well, we'll figure that out later. Okay, moving around to the back of the 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:31.600 card, we've got the same basic look here. So, it's going to look quite sharp 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:35.840 no matter what case you install it in. And then down at the bottom of the card, 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:42.160 we find nothing of note other than a PCI Express connector. Now, I love this 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:48.400 shroud on the back of the card is like the best idea ever because I don't want 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:51.440 to see, you know, what green or red or 00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:55.039 blue PCB you're using. You know what? 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:57.919 Just a nice black shrouded heat sink. 00:05:55.039 --> 00:06:02.160 It's functional. Looks great. I approve of this message. And uh oh, you can see 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:07.440 that there's actually two-part construction to the shroud that goes on the front. So, there's the plastic part 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:13.919 and then this part appears to actually be made of plastic. Can't 00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:17.680 tell. Metal. I'm pretty sure it's metal cuz I think that's part of the uh of the 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:22.080 heat sink. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The bottom part is metal. So, that's part of the heat sink that actually 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:26.319 cools the VRM, RAM chips, all that other good stuff. All right. Let's move around 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:29.759 to the business end of the card where we will find all of our connectivity 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:34.400 options. Now, bear in mind, you can't use all of these at the same time. So, 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:38.960 if you want to run three displays, that means you can run any two of the DVI or 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:43.520 HDMI and then at least one DisplayPort. If you want to run four displays, any 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:47.680 two of these, and two DisplayPort, so be aware of that. Multi- display, you 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:53.360 will probably need to use DisplayPort at some point. We've got a half open uh 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:58.560 PCI slot for ventilation. So, that explains why they needed the extra 00:06:55.360 --> 00:07:00.479 ventilation room uh here on the top of 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:04.160 the card so that you can exhaust. So, basically, this is kind of I'd consider 00:07:01.840 --> 00:07:09.840 this a half and half between external exhaust and internal exhaust. So, 00:07:07.479 --> 00:07:13.599 um yeah, there's not really much else to say about that. Now, oh, this is 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:18.479 interesting. Look at that. This card does not include a DVI to VGA adapter. 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:21.919 So, as per my recommendation that if you're buying a high-end card, you 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:25.199 should probably throw that VGA monitor away, uh, Gigabyte seems to have taken 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:30.720 that to heart, and they don't think you need a VGA adapter for this particular card. Although, I can tell you right 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:35.720 now, it will work if you use an adapter from DVI to VGA. So, thank you for 00:07:33.039 --> 00:07:39.120 checking out my unboxing of the Radeon HD6970. And I'm just going to turn off 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:44.800 the camera for a sec, find out what this dip switch is for, and then I'll be back. So, it's something to do with 00:07:42.960 --> 00:07:48.240 flashing the BIOS. That's uh pretty much all the details I have right now. 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