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all right so we're talking about benchmarks we finally get to look at the performance of the Radeon seven from AMD not just to do a stupid unboxing we're gonna look at performance the numbers the data is very exciting we're gonna be stacking it up against the competition which would be an RT X 2080 from Nvidia as well as a GTX 1080 I'm only testing these three cards guys mainly because the RCX 2080 and this card are about the same price at 699 us and the gtx 980ti as most of us know is on par or comparable in performance - and our TX 2080 so we're gonna be looking at all three just to get us a better idea of which one you should be spending your money on if you're in the market that is for a high-end graphics card so without further ado let's get started so now that I have my brand agnostic jacket on we can begin this review by talking about some of the essentials world's first seven nanometer gaming GPU on Vega xx let's take a look at the specs and how it compares to the competition that we're testing today you can see here we've got thirty 840 SPS or streaming processors on Radeon seven to twenty 944 CUDA cores on the r-tx twenty eighty founders Edition and thirty 584 CUDA cores on the GTX 1080 TI founders Edition both the Radeon seven and the r-tx twenty eighty or max now at around 1800 megahertz for their boost / peak clock frequencies - where the Radeon seven really shines is with its memory having 16 gigs of HBM - compared to just half that I'll be out of GTD are six with the RT X 2080 founders of dition and even though it's an older card the gtx 980ti also has more memory than the RT x 2080 although it's gddr5 x i should say on a thinner bus of 352 bit with 484 gigabytes a second and memory bandwidth as opposed to 448 gigabytes a second on the RT x 2080 and a whopping one terabyte a second on Radeon 7 with the help also of that 4096 bit bus woo 300 watt TDP for the Radeon 7 which is quite a bit higher than the competition and as I mentioned we are seeing a 699 u.s. dollar price tag for the Radeon 7 and the RT X 28 efe the GTX 1080 Ti is in a weird spot right now because it's not quite in production anymore and so you can't really find it for cheaper than around 850 dollars and that's looking on Amazon and Newegg within the US I wouldn't recommend anyone go out and pay that price but again we're comparing it to the other two cards today because it's comparable in performance to NRT X 2080 and I'm curious to see how it stacks up against the new Radeon seven here's a look at the testing hardware you can see I use an open-air testbed with an Intel Core I 999 hundred K at five gigahertz that's overclocked nicely on the Asus Prime's III 90 a with 16 gigs of GCL sniper XP or four at 3400 speed now I want to talk about a couple things before we just jump into the benchmarks the first thing is that I have heard through my little birds through the grapevine that some reviewers are having really bad behavioral issues with their Radeon seven samples I don't want to say any names and I'm not gonna speak to exactly what those issues have been I can only speak on behalf of my own experiences and we still don't know if this is just some bad samples that were sent out to press or if these problems could pour out into the retail that consumers are buying we don't know yet now a lot of the benchmarks I use are maybe two or three minutes long you know maybe five minutes of the most which isn't really indicative of a real-world user experience so I decided to actually pop this card in in-game with it for a longer than just a couple minutes starting with GTA 5 at 1440p I played for about 30 to 40 minutes and what I saw there was the temperatures getting quite a bit higher than I saw in any of my testing because obviously we're putting a load on the card for a longer period of time it was actually hitting up to 94 C in hardware info that being said I also took a look at my clock speeds here and noticed a very nice tightly grouped clock speed range of anywhere from seventeen hundred and seventy megahertz to eighteen hundred and twenty which is right about where it should be there were no signs of thermal throttling or anything like that and overall and most importantly I was seeing very smooth and stable gameplay with no issues whatsoever and that was in GTA 5 again at 1440p switch gears to about half an hour in resident evil 2 the remake of course at 4k decided to bump it up to the higher resolution to see how the card would perform I was seeing very consistent clock speeds this time in the seventeen hundred and sixty to the eighteen hundred megahertz range quite a bit lower than in GTA 5 not by a lot but a little bit because of that higher temperature of course the clocks are ramping down a bit so core clock and even memory clock frequencies were totally normal but I did encounter a couple black screens and random lock ups in the game I would just be playing the game and all of a sudden it would go from windowed mode I'm sorry full screen mode to windowed mode and it would pause the game definitely shouldn't be happening especially on a $700 graphics card that being said I'm currently testing this with a pre-launch press driver and I'm really hoping that once public drivers get released that these sorts of issues go away completely because it's just not acceptable on any new GPU regardless of the amount you're paying for it if it does fix the issue then great we can move on and if not maybe we're looking at a bigger problem here that certainly requires further investigation the next thing I want to address here is the ridiculous 16 gigabytes of memory on the Radeon seven you need it is it required is it necessary for gaming can you even utilize 16 gigs in game well previously up until this point I would have said no because I personally had never experienced that much memory utilization in any game I had ever tested but since then I have changed my mind because when testing Resident Evil 2 at 4k with maxed out settings this sucker ate nearly 15 gigs of vram and that was only after half an hour of gaming this is the only game the first and only game I've ever seen use anywhere close to that much memory I think the second place is like GTA 5 at 4k with maxed out settings that 8 around 10 gigs this is a good showcase for the Radeon 7 because it demonstrates that more games are starting to utilize more memory that being said I don't think there's an immediate mainstream need for 16 gigs of beer I just don't unless you're part of that small slice of the gamer pie who wants the game at 4k on all the Triple A games and max out everything across the board no holds barred for those users the Radeon 7 does build a stronger case for having a ridiculous amount of B Ram finally I ran 14 different gaming tests today two of which were 3d mark benchmarks and then I also ran six triple-a games at 2560 by 1440 and 3840 by 2160 guys without further ado it is my pleasure and honor to present to you the benchmarks for AMD's new flagship GPU all right so there you have the bench marks on top of this I also added up all of the frames that were rendered across the board to put into a single chart that you see here so we can get an overall look of how these cards stacked up so at 4k the r-tx 2080 performed 13% faster on average then the Radeon 7gt X 1080 T I performed about 3 percent faster than the Radeon 7 at 1440p we see a slightly larger performance gap between the cards as to be expected at the lower resolution with the RT X 2080 performing 16% faster than the Radeon 7 and the GTX 1080i performing about 6.5 percent faster on average than the Radeon 7 so with that said let's draw some conclusions right off the bat I would not recommend buying a new gtx 980ti because even though it consistently outperforms a Radeon 7 in my tests it's just not worth the 850 dollars that it's currently being sold for on sites like Amazon and Newegg bearing that in mind if you're comfortable buying used off of say eBay or something like that then it's a great deal you can find it for about 4 to 500 dollars right now used and the GTX 280 I still pumps out tremendous performance years later here in 2019 so some to consider now based on the data if you're just looking for the maximum amount of gaming performance in terms of frame rates and 1% lows I have to recommend the RT X 2080 you're simply getting more frames per dollar than you are with the Radeon 7 this is certainly true for 1440p gaming and 2160p gaming today the reason I say today is because it probably won't be long before we start to see more and more titles that require more than a gigs of VRAM to run at 4k with maxed out settings but at the end of the day since the vast majority of existing titles hardly require that much memory the 16 gig frame buffer is really not going to do you nearly as many favors and in that case you're just gonna get more bang for your buck more frames per dollar with an RT X 28 the last little reminder here guys is that we only tested the game performance of this card today so if you plan to be using it for anything beyond gaming like ray tracing or 3d rendering any kind of productivity workstation workload make sure you look at other reviews who have tested in those areas to get a full picture as to whether or not this card is a good fit for your play and work needs that's gonna do it for me guys let me know what you think about rating on seven in the comments did it meet exceed or fall short of your expectations lemme know down below as always guys toss a look on the video if you enjoyed it it helps me a lot and get subscribed to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really really soon have a good one guys thanks for watching I will see you all in the next day