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it's finally here the AMD Radeon seven graphics card well I shouldn't say it's actually here the embossing embargo is here oh what a world we live in so today I'm just throwing my video into the pile of other unboxing videos that are probably blowing up your sub feed right now and thank you for clicking on mine February 7th is when the card launches for 699 US dollars that puts it right up there with the r-tx 2080 from Nvidia so let's hope I haven't tested it yet obviously but let's hope that the performance is there to match and stay competitive with an RT X 2080 I didn't cover this card at all at CES this year and it was initially debuted but that doesn't mean I wasn't excited about it I've been waiting for a long time I think we all have for NVIDIA to get a little bit of competition for them to see just a little bit of competition in the high end GPU space they've objectively been dominating the market for a while now and without really solid competition in that space ultimately it's the customers who suffer so I'm really rooting for the underdog here and sincerely hoping that this card can offer gamers a viable alternative to geforce cards in the high end GPU market fairly well known at this point that this is the world's first 7 nanometer gaming GPU very exciting touring with the GeForce is 12 nanometer so we're gonna pop the lid off of this bad boy hey simple simple and clean I like it you got a card and plastic thing what is this looks like a stand a little bigger the GPU right there that's a big sucker what is this candy no these are batteries oh I see these probably go in here I doubt that the power of the GPU I'm sure it needs a bit more juice than that let's take the card out first and then we'll mess around with this business go just sad yeah now this GPU I'm gonna try to do this one-handed while filling it features 60 compute units oh this is this is gonna be a challenge 60 compute units 30 840 shader units oh my god professional inbox are here so there's actually fewer units overall than its predecessor the RX Vegas 64 however we are packing double the frame buffer with 16 gigs of HBM to memory on a 4096 bit bus giving us a terabyte of memory bandwidth and that seven nanometer architecture has really done AMD some favors when it comes to clocking this thing out of the box we're gonna see peak frequencies of 1800 megahertz that's about 300 megahertz higher than we saw with the RX Vega sixty-four and of course the architecture isn't just about raw power it's also about power efficiency so at 300 megahertz faster than an Rx Vega 64 it's still drawing around the same amount of power which is pretty impressive now this card doesn't have any RT cores on it like the Turing cards do but AMD is said that it can handle ray-tracing workloads just fine and in some cases even outperform its turning rivals in particular rate racing workloads there's also no crossfire support for this card it's a bit of a lone wolf in that sense which is fine by me I mean I would imagine that getting 32 gigs of HBM to memory to work nicely together it would be a waking nightmare and plus I usually suggest people go with a single faster card anyway as opposed to doing a multi GPU set up for reliability stability and performance taking a closer look at the card you've still got your tried-and-true PCIe gen3 here and it looks like a very sort of simplified and minimalistic design here it's like they took a piece of sheet metal vented a couple times cut out a couple holes and bam there's your reference design GPU you got three fans they look to be about ninety two millimeters or so and the heatsink this portion of the heatsink is actually much taller than the portion you're seeing underneath the fans so it does provide a little extra heat dissipation you can see that there's a copper plate right there and it's a fairly open shroud nothing is getting ejected out the front if you want to call this the front of the GPU but certainly air is gonna be exhausted out the bottom the top to some degree and certainly the back so be sure to plan your airflow path accordingly should you be popping one of these into a future bill while we're at the rear here let's take a look at our IO we've got one HDMI and three display ports Radeon branding of course this is very similar to the RX Vegas 64 this probably lights up red not expecting any RGB here you've also got that Radeon cube in the corner that I'm sure lights up to just above that dual eight pin power plugs again 295 watt TDP and very curious to see exactly how much power this will draw from the wall though and of course I can't talk about that right now the back it looks very nice kind of the same sort of color machining as the front all very uniform I wonder if this adds any sort of thermal dissipation definitely has a lot of slots for ventilation but it looks like it's fairly close to the PCB there yeah it's like right on it I'd be curious to tear this thing apart and check to see if there's any thermal pad situation nor if this is actually being used as a heatsink of some sort the card is not super tall or anything maybe extends 3/4 of an inch over the L shape of the of the PCI bracket there and it measures about 12 inches long that's 305 millimeters for those of you who live in a place where things make sense I've been feeling it this whole video but I haven't pointed it out till now this card is very heavy I mean between the back plate and the full length heat sink just the shroud itself being all metal this thing is friggin brick this might be a good card to vertical mount honestly assuming that you can get it far away enough from the side panel okay it's time to bust this thing out first things first you put the bird or is in these crappy batteries give me a sec so this has now become a battery unboxing video these are triple A's comes in a pack of three get in the thing I just have one day without problems is that too much to ask yes batteries installed ok GPU I don't know how this goes probably like that does that look right sure and there's a power switch back here somewhere aha oh this is really illuminate all that well kind of a weak RGB implementation let's see if it looks better with the lights off okay it's definitely a bit more noticeable now that's a pretty nice display let me just set this up here we'll do a little talkie-talkie okay look really short right now because I had to lower my chair so that my head doesn't get cut off I really need a haircut getting sidetracked here like I mentioned this card has to stay competitive performance wise with an RT X 2080 in order for people to give a crap about it otherwise what's the point you're not gonna pay more money for less performance that's if you're strictly talking from a gaming perspective if you're looking into doing some rate racing workloads from a professional standpoint then maybe the 16 gigs of on-board HBM to memory is enough that's the beauty of this card is it's sort of flexible kind of versatile it might be good for someone who likes to work and play whereas the RT X 2080 is strictly marketed towards a gaming audience hypothetically if I was in the market for a new high end GPU and I had 700 bucks to drop on one just willy-nilly personally I would be looking strictly at raw gaming performance in terms of frame rates 1% lows 0.1% lows and that sort of thing for gaming in 2019 16 gigs of VRAM is absolutely insane it's more than anyone could possibly utilize and you know it's it's nice to have but you don't necessarily need it so I think for gamers and it's gonna boil down to how fast this is compared to NRT X 2080 especially now that you get free sinc support with ten series cards and newer on the geforce side it's one less argument for for high-end AMD GPUs like this you can't just say well you might save 200 bucks 300 bucks on a free sync panel instead of having to go with g-sync well that's not the case anymore so this thing really does have to have the performance to back up the price in relation to the competition and I really hope it knocks out of the park you guys let me know what your anticipations are or your expectations are sir and what you what you think of this card so far if you're hoping that it succeeds if you are an Nvidia fanboy and you hate competition and you can't wait to see it fail let me know down below guys thanks for watching this quick and dirty video as always toss a like on it if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech stuff coming at you really soon I'm actually going to drop this on the test bed right meow so I must stop recording or I will get in lots of trouble and I will never get anything like this from AMD ever again okay I'm rambling now have a good day