Unboxing RX VEGA & THREADRIPPER + Mystery Holocube
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,308 words · ~6 min read
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Okay, so if you guys think it's crazy that Razer showed up with both a like
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mockup of the Razer Toaster and an
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actual working Razer toaster, if you guys think
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that's crazy, you are not even ready for
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what's going on in here. This box right
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here is being seen here at LTX
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2017 for the first time. That label on the top says prototype inside. To those
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of you wondering, no, it is not Project Valerie. It is not AMD Epic,
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but it is from AMD. You guys, are you
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guys ready?
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Inside this box being unveiled for the first time
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AMD RX Vega.
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Inside this box is not only an AMD RX
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Vega, but a completely
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oneof-kind unboxing experience that will
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only be available in very very limited
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quantities because to produce it required designers from the Netherlands,
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UK, Canada, and the US and the cost of
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building it is extraordinarily
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high. So to see one of these in person
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is going to be a very very unusual
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experience. This is this is
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crazy. The sleeve of Horx Vega.
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Hey, that's mine. I want to do it.
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Okay. Okay. The cardboard flap of RX
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Vega.
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bring pixels to life. Oh yeah, later.
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Okay, here we go. Whoa.
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Now, just hold on a minute here. Oh, do I have to leave it there? Okay, so we're
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going to plug it in. Can I pick it up? Can I hold it? Of course. So,
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this is a prototype device that AMD is
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calling the holo cube.
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Hol. And it's some kind of holographic
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display that actually syncs with Radeon
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software to project certain images if
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there's like a driver update or like a
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new game you want to play or if your DVR capture is on.
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But is it RGB? No, it is AMD red because it is all
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about team red.
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team.
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Wow. I was looking at it from the wrong
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side. So, you guys were actually seeing it. So, inside the cube is another cube.
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It's a graphic. Uh we actually have a video that we can play just in case you
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can't see it. We're going to we're going to leave this out so you guys can see it in person, but I'm going to go ahead and
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fire that up. So, from the front there's
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just this graphic, this uh this rotating cube that seems to be hovering
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completely in midair.
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Unbelievable. Has everyone kind of seen it? Can you see it moving around in
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there? How about you guys in the front there?
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Pretty cool, eh? But of course, that's
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not the main announcement today.
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The main announcement is the unboxing of the card itself. So, first up, we've got
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uh
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DisplayPort to DVI adapter.
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DisplayPort to HDMI adapter.
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We actually really could have used one of these last night.
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and Emanuel.
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And finally, being seen for the first
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time here today, the final shroud design
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of RX Vega.
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There it is. So, this is the limited
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edition of RX Vega. It's got a brushed
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aluminum finish. This is a completely
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new architecture for AMD. Everything
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about it was built from the ground up. It's got a new geometry and pixel
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engine. It's got hardware accelerated async compute if you guys are into
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DirectX12 and you're into Vulcan. And it
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features 8 gigs of HBM2 memory. So, for
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a consumer card right now to get HBM2 memory, you got to buy a $9,000 graphics
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card. And I can't tell you what the price of this is going to be, but I can
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tell you it's going to be a lot less than that.
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Also, it will have better support for free sync than ever before. And that's
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supposed to be kind of a kind of a hint because AMD will be officially
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announcing many many more details about
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RX Vega tomorrow at 7:30 Pacific. 7:30
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p.m. Pacific. So stay tuned for that. I
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promised that this would be unbelievable
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and that you guys would be absolutely blown away.
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And we're going to start getting the uh phase two going here because that wasn't
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it.
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It's getting real now because Vega would have been a big deal and Vega
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is a big deal. But inside this box is a
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DisplayPort cable
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and a big fat power cable.
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and an Alienware Area 51
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gaming desktop running a 16 core 32
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thread Threadripper.
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And what we're going to do here today is
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we're going to show you Doom running on
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RX Vega and Threadripper for the first
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time and
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and a few lucky audience members will
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game on it.
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Now we got to hook it up. So, everyone keep that level of excitement going for
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like two minutes. Okay, two minutes. There's still more. Yeah, let's get it
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going. AMD,
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you guys are about to witness some live and in person Linus Tech Tips
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troubleshooting. So, I'm just going to perform a quick memory swap here.
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Okay. Okay. I'm going to try the other RAM. Still beeping. Oh, man. I'm
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freaking out here, you guys. It's okay. I'm fine. Right now everything is fine.
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Putting other memory back in.
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You guys are going to cut all that out, right?
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Okay. Okay. We got this. The next thing I get to unveil today,
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lightheaded is everybody's favorite
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benchmark when they first fire up their
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computer with a new processor.
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Windows, task manager,
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16 cores, 32 threads. Threads. Yes, I
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got special permission from Alienware to be the first person to run Cinebench in
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public on Threadripper.
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Okay, I'm actually going to need an assistant to come in and click it for me
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cuz I want to hold this up so everyone
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can see it. Uh,
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actually, maybe someone who's already on the stage. over here. Okay. Yeah. Can
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you click run? Click run. 16 threads.
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16 cores. CPU. CPU. CPU. Yeah. 16 cores.
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32 threads. That's how fast it goes.
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Look at it fly. It might already be done.
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It's done.
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score. 2866.
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Okay. This is exhausting.
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I think I'm allowed to tell you base clock. Well, it's running at like 2.6
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right now, but it's it's it's it's shifting a lot. There will be more
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details on Threadripper. I need Steam to launch. I really need it to launch
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right now.
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We're just going to reboot it. We're We're going to show off the speedy
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reboot times of the Area 51.
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You better not update. So, I'm going to use this opportunity.
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Have some water, dude. You're exhausted. Have some water. I'm dying. I'm going to
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use this opportunity.
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to announce one more thing. AMD is giving away to two lucky
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people, one here and one
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participating at the link in the video description
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online. They are giving away two RX Vega
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graphics cards.
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In the meantime, huge shout out to AMD
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and Alienware for making this unveiling
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possible. Thank
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you. Huge shout out to you guys for
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being here and a huge shout out again to Fresh Books, the cloud accounting
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software for small business owners and freelancers.
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All right, link in the video description. Get your free trial.
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There's going to be a code LTX 2017, I
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think, or something. LTX. Yeah, whatever. Colton's not screaming, so
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maybe that's it. Either way, it'll be linked down there. Thanks for watching,
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you guys, and thanks for being here, you guys. I will see you guys out on the show floor.
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God. Yes.