GAMING at 16K RESOLUTION?? – HOLY $H!T
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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2,482 words · ~12 min read
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Okay, yes, I know, last episode, total cliffhanger with some of you expressing frustration that we left you with these apparently, whatever that means.
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Anyway, we never meant to lead you on, but between the desk, the monitors, and the troubleshooting, it was just way too much for one video.
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But we're back at it with 16K Gaming, and this episode will be the last, and it's going to work, we hope.
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Okay, so here's where we left off.
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Some of the monitors are running correctly, 4K 60Hz.
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Some of them are not working at all.
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And some of them are somewhere in between at this god-awful 1024x768 resolution with pillar boxes.
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So, troubleshooting.
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We reseated our graphics cards.
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We double-checked the connections on our QuadroSync card.
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And finally, it might be the painstakingly cable-managed 25-foot generic DisplayPort cables.
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I've got the new ones.
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Freaking fantastic.
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Okay.
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So, while Jake works on swapping the cables out, I want to get into a little bit more detail about the 16K experience we are trying to create here.
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We wanted to upstage our last insane resolution gaming setup in every possible way.
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So, we reached out to Acer, who graciously provided 16 of their 4K Predator XB1 gaming displays.
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We weren't able to make use of all of them.
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We wanted to make use of all of their gaming features like G-Sync and R-Config.
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But, their IPS panels are an absolute must for a monitor array that's so large that in regular use,
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you could actually be looking at it from 30 to 50 degrees off-center.
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Let's move around to where Jake's working and take a closer look at the cabling.
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Even with some clever cable management,
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using these stealthed power lines,
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using these stealthed power lines,
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using these stealthed power bars that we've got here,
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we needed four pounds of power cords,
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and we actually need two wall circuits in order to run this monstrosity.
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Because with a typical power consumption of around 70 watts each,
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our monitors alone draw more than 1,100 watts from the wall.
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And, sending an image to the monitors was no easy battle either.
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So, our original setup had a whopping 300 feet of DisplayPort cabling all nicely managed into the desk.
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Save for a little bit that's kind of hanging out the back here.
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Jake's shrinking that down to 240 feet now.
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Basically, a lot of DisplayPort cabling.
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And, I think we've got all the replacements in, right?
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Yep.
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Okay!
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Wait for it, wait for it.
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Oh.
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Hold on.
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What?
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What is this?
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What?
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What is this?
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What?
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What?
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What?
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This isn't 16 Gamer's One CPU, is it?
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This isn't 16 Gamer's One CPU, is it?
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No.
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No.
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Yes!
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Yes!
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Yes!
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Wow, yeah.
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Wait, are they all 4K?
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Uh, looks like it, yeah.
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Uh, looks like it, yeah.
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Alright!
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There it is!
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16 Ks of soon-to-be gaming glory!
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And this is probably even more impressive than you realize,
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because remember, 16K is not twice as much as 8K.
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And 8K is...
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And 8K is...
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And 8K is not twice as much as 4K.
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We are talking about a 4X increase in pixel count as we move up.
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So to put this thing in perspective,
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look at the 1080p full HD monitor that you're probably watching this video on right now.
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16K is 64 times the total pixels.
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Your 1080p monitor would be this big.
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That's it!
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Now, let's talk about how we're planning to drive them.
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We learned a lot from our last crazy experiment,
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when we were the first to game at 8K on YouTube.
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And there were three problems we needed to solve.
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One, we were running a mere two graphics cards last time,
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with consumer amounts of video memory.
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That needed to be rectified.
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Two, NVIDIA's consumer-grade display spanning,
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NB Surround, is not very flexible.
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Three, when you run a 3D application across multiple cards,
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there can be a desynchronized jelly effect,
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when you move left and right, that's pretty nauseating.
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Thankfully, Guardian Angel NVIDIA saved the day,
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supplying us with four of their Quadro P5000s,
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valued at a total of about 10,000 US dollars.
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And I saw a lot of comments on the last video,
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like, why Quadros?
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Quadros aren't for gaming.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Well, okay.
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If you went to Linus University,
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you would know that they game just fine.
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And you'd also know that they address a lot of those problems for us.
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Each of our P5000s has similar performance to a GTX 1080,
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but with a whopping 16 gigs of VRAM.
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So that is 64 gigs total for all DIMM pixels,
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since we're not running an SLI.
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Also,
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professional Quadro cards have a different display combining utility,
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called Mosaic,
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that can scale to far more displays than NB Surround.
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And finally,
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to address the jelly effect,
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and keep this entire wall of monitors in sync,
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they have this extra little connector,
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to plug into a Quadro Sync 2 card.
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And it works.
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Hopefully.
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This is like the last video.
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You told me it was going to work.
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It is going to work.
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Oh.
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And it...
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It worked.
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And it...
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Uh...
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And it works.
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Okay.
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Now, to be clear,
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this feature is really designed for jumbotrons
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and large format digital signage,
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like a Times Square video wall versus gaming.
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But we appreciate NVIDIA agreeing to let us showcase it for that,
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which is coming very, very soon now.
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So,
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let's get started.
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let's get started.
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So,
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let's get started.
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It's actually pretty darn clean.
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Okay, also, since we're in here, holy crap.
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That's right, my friends, 15,360 by 8640.
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And we are gonna launch some freaking games
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after we take a closer look at the table.
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So if you didn't see it in part one,
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this custom version of Icy Table's desk
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expands their normal design from six to 16 monitors.
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But everything else about it is actually this cool,
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even if you just get a regular one.
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So the entirety of the desk is customizable
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from the Bluetooth controllable RGB lighting
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to the swappable fascia panels,
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which might I mention come in a variety of colors.
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The tempered glass desk can also sport a graphic under it,
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which is pretty sick.
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So you can show off your favorite game, car,
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or waifu if that's your mojo.
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And there's built-in,
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cable management for the integrated case
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that they call the T-Con.
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This is some desk PC final form shit right here.
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So are you ready to launch a game?
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Yeah, what should we do first?
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First?
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Minecraft?
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We gotta do some fucking Minecraft, yeah.
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You almost need a separate desk
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so you can desk while you desk.
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Or, ooh.
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Okay, hold on, I got this.
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It's like, oh my goodness, that's a lot of pixels.
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Loading world.
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Wow.
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Whoa.
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Holy actual balls.
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I will confess to you, I have never played Minecraft.
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Do we have a fraps counter?
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This is probably what, like 800 by 600?
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So F11.
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So we were at 400 FPS.
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It's just gone.
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Click F3.
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I think you can see F3.
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There we go.
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There we go.
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No.
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No.
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So we're running at like, ooh.
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Ooh, we saw a hitch there.
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We're running at like 40 to 50 frames per second
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at 16K.
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16K!
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That's like 5 billion pixels a second
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or something like that.
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No, we can't see VRAM usage.
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We just gotta get...
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Do you have afterburner?
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Afterburner, yeah.
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No way!
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Nine gigabytes.
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Every GPU is using exactly the same amount of memory.
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It might be shared, Jake.
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Yeah.
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All right, next game.
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Let's do one that we haven't tried yet.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider.
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Go low settings just so we like have some VRAM possibilities there.
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Sure.
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Okay.
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Here we go.
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You ready?
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Yeah.
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Oh.
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Whoa!
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Okay.
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Game launched.
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No way.
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Three FPS.
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Remember...
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Start benchmarks.
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Remember there's more, there's more to lag about a game than just the frame rate.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Click.
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Oh.
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Yes!
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Holy crap.
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Like the game's not even running in real time right now.
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Like, do you notice how long that fade took?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it looks great.
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Even like up close, right?
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Cause this is, this is still 4K level of detail on every screen, right?
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Yeah.
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I think this is about one frame per second.
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Lara Croft is actually like your size.
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Tallest.
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Taller than me.
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Look at this.
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Look at her head, it's huge.
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This is like, this is actual size.
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You heard it here first.
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This is video games in real size.
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Maybe I didn't hold the escape key for long enough.
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Oh, wow.
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Yes.
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I'm, oh, wow.
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Oh, no.
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Holy balls.
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I gotta know what video memory, I mean, it must've just been pinned.
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Yeah.
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So we were purely limited by VRAM.
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Like it was swapping out to system memory.
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So that's interesting.
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That means...
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So we were at 65%.
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So there was 30% more performance in there.
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We could've been running at 1.3 frames per second.
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Look at the power usage.
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We only ever went up to 50.
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On most of the phones.
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Oh, that's really interesting.
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So this is like frame, frame, frame, frame, frame, frame.
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Like frame, system memory, frame, system memory.
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Very interesting.
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Well, let's just try Half-Life 2 then.
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Here we go.
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I mean, this is running on this.
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Oh.
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Oh, damn.
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No way.
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Wow.
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Oh, my God.
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Look at these tiny options.
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We're at the right resolution.
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Go to advanced in the bottom right there.
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Hell yeah.
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Can we turn off the setting?
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Oh, my God.
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It's like way over here.
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Oh, crap.
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Sorry.
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This is actually...
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How about you give me the mouse?
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You know what?
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No, I can do it.
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You can do it.
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And then once you get to the...
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What's our frame rate?
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Uh, 100.
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Now 70.
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No way.
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That's totally playable.
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Minus the like insane tearing.
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Okay, let's turn V-Sync on.
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Does it not have built-in V-Sync?
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Oh, here it is.
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Enabled.
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There we go.
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That actually fixed the tearing.
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That's not bad.
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Wow.
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What are we at?
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40?
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How's the input lag?
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You know what?
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A lot better than you would think.
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Memory usage is only 8 gigs.
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Yeah, so temps are getting up there and power's getting up there.
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Actually, not as much as I would have thought.
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Very interesting.
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All right.
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So you can play Half-Life 2 at 16K.
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Okay, what else we got?
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Shadow of Mordor, maybe?
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This is a disaster.
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Geographical coordinates of our children's birthplace.
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Putting Billy Bob Thornton on your ARM is a disaster.
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I'm just looking for it.
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Let's just launch it.
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Oh, there you go.
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Wow.
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Wicked.
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This is not the right resolution, though.
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Not even close.
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Yeah, this is like 1080 or something.
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Loading.
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And also, it's completely crashed now.
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Okay.
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Well, this game's just broke.
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Did it manage to lock up the system?
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Nope.
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Okay, system's up.
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All right.
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So we're going to try one more game, then.
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Say a five.
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Oh, my God.
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It worked.
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Whoa.
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Wow.
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Oh, my goodness.
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This is impossible to read.
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Oh, my God.
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Look at the UI.
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You got your...
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The mini-maps over here.
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They took a mini-map to a whole nother level.
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We got the settler over there.
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How am I supposed to choose?
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Okay, choose production for the...
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Oh, my God.
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Where is it?
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Oh, my God.
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It's way up there.
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I'm going to make a granary.
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A monument, you mean?
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Is it a monument?
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I don't know.
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I can't read it.
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What frame rate is this running at?
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20.
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20 FPS.
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Not bad.
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Do you have afterburner open?
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Not bad.
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All right.
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Let's find out.
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Civ V, medium details, 8K.
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Not bad.
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Power?
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9 gigs.
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Huh.
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So there you have it, guys.
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Once again.
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You saw it here first.
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16K gaming on the PC.
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Let's see you do that on an Xbox.
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Let's see you do 4K on an Xbox.
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