AMD's HUGE Announcement - the Best Value Ever??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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991 words · ~4 min read
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okay so you guys know how it is best laid plans of mice and men we're talking
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a 60 email chain of you know the videos
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that we're going to make here at the tech day and there's a bunch of complications so we figured out a
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compromise AMD is giving us a worldwide
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first exclusive piece of information it
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is inside that door let's go find out
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what it is
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so we'll be sitting down with Roger caduri here who is the lead of the radon
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Technologies Group and uh we're going to find out whatever it is this is they
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won't tell me anything other than that
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it's a big deal you're looking full of energy for a guy who's been up since
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what no it's it's kind of hitting right now just like little that's okay just
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use my technique just kind of go and then yeah see it's fine so what I'm
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assuming then is the big reveal that you've got for me is an enlightening
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story about the subtle changes to the radi on font um that's actually the
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biggest story we got I think that's that's confidential we can't talk about
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that that thing okay well what are we going to do
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instead we got the camera we got the camera so you know about VR yeah yeah
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I've heard of it you heard of it have you tried I had to take my Vive review
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unit back to the office so that my VR
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editor could work on it and it was one of the hardest decisions I ever made so
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love VR yeah have you tried like kind of like you know Google cardboard or like
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get VR type VR y um so what I'm going to
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tell you lus is that like so there are kind of two kinds of VR in the market
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okay so there is VR that is I call it
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bad VR right uh but very convenient
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because it's you can just take your smartphone and put it inside your Google
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cardboard and yeah and do that kind of stuff so it's bad VR that's very
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convenient and then there is good VR right like what the the stuff that you
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see with HTC and uh and and Oculus right
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it's very inconvenient and you ask me why it's inconvenient it's because you
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know it has tethering it has this it has that but most important in convenient
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the good VR has is it's very expensive oh I was going to say the worst thing is
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that I have to explain to my wife that I'm drilling holes in the wall to mount
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lighthouses yeah that too yeah yeah so
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there are a bunch of inconveniences there and uh we have taken um a stance
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we want to get good VR to over 100
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million uh users right okay and so we
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created a product you know that begins that Revolution to get good VR 200
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million users the cost of the PC today is one of the the biggest you know
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roadblocks for getting 100 million PC users to have good VR right okay and and
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in the cost of the PC GPU plays a big role right you know to play good VR with
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HTC or Oculus you have to Shell out over
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$400 today right okay so we created this
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new technology very very comfortable for good VR for
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$199 so that's the price that's the
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price $99 $199 and you get awesome VR
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you get like you know premium we call it the you know the Oculus and all call it
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VR premium you get premium VR for less
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than $200 for the first time in the history of PC VR 200 bucks 200 bucks so
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do I get to see one yes you'll be one of the first ones
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to get to see the one where is where is the the gift uh thing in there it's in
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this beautiful
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I can
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this let make that $99 also very durable
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very durable right durable so this is it
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this is it this is the new so who else
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radi who else outside of AMD then and any other press held one yet nope you're
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the first one you're the first one one it's beautiful with a like a you know
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teeny little six pin connector six pin connector it's power it's got the
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classic uh you know EP extension uh to
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the the PCB compensator as I like to call it right right and uh you know very
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cool very quiet okay and because we're
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using this finfet technology right and the new architecture we have reduced the
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power for VR premium solution to less
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than 150 watt so there you have it the
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price of the rx480 is
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$200 so there you have it then guys you heard it here first AMD is drop drop
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dropping well lots of things but mostly
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the barrier to entry for VR so thanks for watching if you guys
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