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welcome back to harbor unbox today is the official unboxing embargo for the GeForce r-tx 2080 and 20 atti but in addition to just taking out of the box and showing you the card we can share some more technical information and video provided us with loads and loads of info a way more than we had time to digest has only got access to it last night and I have been busy testing that new Athlon 200g II processor despite that I will be touching on some of what we believe to be the more interesting aspects of the technical document but ultimately I think you guys are probably a bit over hearing about how well the RT X series will perform based on information provided by Nvidia so most of the details will just save for our review on the 19th at which point we'll finally have performance numbers that will actually mean something since we're allowed to unbox and show you the card I thought we'd go one step further and tear down the 20 oh you have a closer look at the PCB and of course the new cooler we do have a dual fan cooler that we've sort of seen but we haven't really got a truly good look at yet I don't think so we're going to do that and we'll also compare it to the cooler on the 1080 and as luck would have it I do have a teardown draw 1080 cooler basically so we can check that out and nice and convenient unfortunately you've probably noticed I have just the single box I don't have my 20 atti yet is on the way but some issues there with DHL and customs so that has delayed the card hopefully I will get it tomorrow if not on Monday and then I can get all the testing done ready for our day 1 coverage and video we're a little bit slow getting the cards out it's usually pretty tight these deadlines this one seems a little more crazier than normal but yeah hopefully it goes smoothly from this point forward we just got the drivers so drivers are also quite late basically all media around the world can kiss their weekend goodbye along with that thing you normies call sleep sorry first before we rip the car out of the box and have a look at it and drool over it basically but she's going for a few technical details basically the main architectural change between Pascal ensuring is the addition of two extra blocks in each cheering SM unit whereas Pascal was essentially just a massive collection of floating-point units cheering introduces tensor cores and integer units in addition to the standard floating-point units this makes the call larger and increase of the TDP but crucially cheering supports concurrent FP 32 and into 32 execution Fortin video claims is a handy performance boost the idea is that the integer instructions that previously around the floating-point units can now be offloaded to the integer pipeline ensuring and running concurrently with floating-point instructions in video claims that on average 36 integer instructions can be offloaded and run on the entry cores per 100 floating-point instructions though of course that varies depending on the game it's claimed by envy this concurrent execution helps improve shader performance by 50% or more in some situations of course these graphs don't show how concurrent execution will impact a game's final France a second figure shading is only one part of what the GPU needs to do to render a game so your stuff to wait for benchmarks to see how this architecture change impacts gaming performance but what we know is that at least one aspect of a game rendering can be accelerated in a new way with cheering cheering also has a native HDR display pipeline thanks to an all new display engine so the performance dropped Tim discovered with Pascal cards when switching on HDR should be fixed with cheering in video is very keen for us to explore this but with extremely limited time our tests the cards that will likely have to be a follow-up piece probably produced by a team and the final thing worth mentioning right now is Nvidia has a new env scanner API that allows one-click overclocking utilities such as EVGA precision will integrate this API and provide a feature where with one click you can sit back for roughly 20 minutes as a software uncovers the exact voltage frequency curve for your graphics card and from there you can choose optimal stable frequencies to run sounds pretty neat and we'll have to give that one a try a bit later on with our review Tim also plans to dive into overclocking and provide some separate content pieces around that as well so it should be quite interesting so that is pretty much everything we need to discuss at this point I think it's time to take the r-tx 20/80 out of the box I'll take look at the card first we'll go over all the external design of the card then I'll do a quick jump cut you guys will be none the wiser but I'll jump away quickly test thermals and then I'll jump back to tear the thing apart and we'll continue from there okay so I'll get my knife and I'm a bit excited about this I don't think I've ever anticipated a new graphics cards or new GPU release as much as this anticipate the performance be interesting to see how these perform obviously we won't know until next week but yeah very exciting stuff so here is the box pretty standard box similar to the other ones I mean the box Art's a bit different the physical design and size of the box is what we've seen with previous models so here we go it'll probably be in a anti-static bag yes it is so it doesn't look quite as good hmm got some a little tag attached to it I'm pretty sure that doesn't come with the retail versions we'll just cut that off without scratching the card okay let's take this anti-static bag off and we got some clear plastic protecting it we'll get that off and let's try that again for maximum effect are you ready for this so actually I don't want to lose any fingers I need them for benchmarking and here we go again it's like you've never seen me do this before whoa awesome I have to say it actually looks a lot better in the flesh than it did in the release announcement coverage and photos and stuff we saw I said in my announcement video that I didn't really like the look of this card I a lot of people didn't like the look of this car but I quite looked quite looked I quite liked the look of the original founders issuing card I thought it was quite cool like the aggressive lines or the triangles and things well that was pretty cool but obviously not everyone's cup of tea but anyway and I didn't really like the look at this but I have to say seeing it in the flesh I think it looks actually looks really good that feels very premium yeah the silver backplate which is a one-piece backplate this time looks really nice a lot better than what I was expecting to be honest it looked a very plasticky and nasty and the photos I thought but yeah it's a it's pretty much all aluminium and you'd see it in most systems like that and I think that looks that looks pretty awesome so obviously it looks very different to the original 10a found edition graphics card for obvious reasons the coolers very different you have the single blower fan on this design which they've used for as long as I can remember pretty much till back in the days when they were single slot cards and going back a long way but anyway we get the two fans and we get what looks like a massive heatsink we're going to get into that in a second nice little IO panel there we've got the types Eve got display ports I'll provide some information about the display ports towards the end of the video HDMI so a three DisplayPort out and then of course the sort of a backplate that we just looked at which wraps all the way around the card completely encloses the card so that's different and then we have this little plastic bit here that pops out to give you access to the envy link connectors if you want to connect another card up but yeah SLI I don't know if you guys still do that I don't yeah I think it's probably time to go do what I've got to do with this jump back and then we'll pull it apart okay so in total the PCB measures twenty six point four centimeters long and nine and a half centimeters tall and weighs 238 grams the cooler though that tips the scales at a whopping 936 grams which is seriously heavy for what is a rather compact cooler by high-end graphics card standards with the cooler installed the r-tx 2080 found edition measures 27 centimeters long and 10 centimeters tall and in total weighs twelve hundred and sixty six grams making it 25% heavier than the 1080 fe card speaking of which of the cooler on the 1080 Fe weighs just 686 grams and that means the 20/80 cooler is 36% heavier the fins on the heat sink measure 12 millimeters tall and run virtually the entire length of the card so this is largely why the card is so heavy that and the fact that almost the entire thing has been constructed from aluminium on the PCB we of course have the massive Turing GPU codename tu-104 there's also eight one gigabyte GDD are six memory chips providing an 8 gigabyte vram buffer the chips in question of microns mt6 1k 256 M 32 J a 14 a and this is their 14 gigabits per second memory we also find what looks to be an 8 + 2 phase very amusing on semiconductor power stages I wasn't quite able to make out the part numbers but the time I had available so I'll have to dig into that for their review finally I should just note the RT X 28 EF e cards feature a 6 pin an 8 pin power connector whereas the FE version of the GTX eternity only included a single 8 pin I have to say overall I am much much happier with how these new found Edition graphics cards look as I said earlier didn't really like the images the stuff provided by Nvidia that we saw online but yeah now having got my little grubby mitts on it I very much approve it's a it looks and feels very premium so yeah very very nice card of course you guys are probably sick of hearing about these cards without seeing any actual benchmarks and I'm a bit sick of talking about them with any without actual benchmarks at this point so thankfully we don't have to wait too much longer now so stay tuned next week we will have our day-long coverage there'll be loads of reviews online so you can check ours out I encourage you to check out other reviews and see what we all find and what we all think our day one coverage will include about a dozen games so possibly not as many as you guys are hoping for but it's just you to time obviously we only have a few days to get this stuff done so i bench marked all the other cards and been doing that madly for weeks now all that data is in just got to add this to it yeah we'll probably do twelve games for the day one coverage because we also want to look at things like overclocking thermals power consumption and whatever else but on day two the following day we will have a 30 plus game comparison so that will be probably worth waiting around for it should be pretty good speaking of which I need to go get benchmarking so I'm going to take this guy up to the benchmark lab now and go get testing as always thank you for watching like subscribe do all that good stuff and I'll catch you again soon I'm your host Steve Bay