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hey everyone i'm steve from gamers nexus donna and we were at AMD's a booth at CES 2016 primarily looking at the limited Polaris display right now but there's some other cool stuff that will be talking about as well before getting to that all this content from CES 2016 is brought to you by I by powers revolt to small form factor gaming PC looking at polaris right now there's a limited sort of black box demo where polaris is on my left that be your right and then there's a gtx 950 on the other side what is being shown here is primarily the power draw so you're looking at performance per watt and right now both systems are locked to 60fps and battlefront through the configuration we asked if we get on market but not right now as far as the frame rate goes its meeting 60 on both cards the 950 and the Polaris GPU which is yet unnamed a lot of specs still not out there and the performance in terms of wattage is currently 73 on Polaris and 129 on the GTX 950 and then once the games out of the menu in actual gameplay we're seeing closer to 90 on Polaris and 140 150 on the GTX 950 so that's really all we have for the actual demonstration in terms of why this is happening it's primarily the move to FinFET so there's a new process node for polaris that's 14 nanometer FinFET which is literally shaped like a fin so the transistor kind of has walls on the sides and that helps prevent leakage and improve power efficiency this is technology that's been around for a little while now it's used in some Intel stuffs used elsewhere so that's moved to fin FET the other wattage improvement is from gcn so there's new gcn architecture versioning with Polaris again not a ton of details right now but on the Cu side on the gcn architecture side that is supposed to be improved with performance per watt as well and we'll move over to the razor laptop next that is actually connected to an external GPU we've looked at these previously with Silverstone I don't think that product ever shipped but there was a silverstone external GPU enclosure and we've seen it with alienware as well with proprietary connections instead of the USB type-c so we're going to look at that next and then check the article in the description below to read about some of the other stuff like the HDR and SDR versus between displays that's a pretty big deal that you should definitely read more about so thank you for watching check the next video for the razor laptop information and hit that patreon link the official video if you want to help us out i'll see you all next time