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welcome back to harbor unboxed on hand for testing we have the new gigabyte or r-tx 2082 i extreme and as you can see this is a nice big high-end graphics card and you might be thinking well why does such a big high end graphics card have such a small box seriously look at the size of this thing you could put an x3 not it on motherboard perhaps even two of them in this thing absolutely huge but as impressive as this big box is the card itself is much more impressive I'm willing to say this is probably definitely the best-looking r-tx model available right now and well if you don't believe me check out this footage of course you have to somewhat enjoy our GB lighting but I think even the haters will admit the effects are pretty impressive with this one gigabytes RGB game certainly has been on point over the years and I absolutely loved their RGB PCIe slots they used on their motherboards sadly though they seemed to have abandoned those now anyway this new RGB lighting method really is incredible and it actually looks better than what I've shown in the b-roll it's quite difficult to match the camera shutter speed to really show the lighting effect how it looks true to life how appears in the flesh and it does look a little bit better first hand so keep that in mind it does look quite cool in the b-roll I've already seen the b-roll looks quite good but even better in person so if you're after flashy RGB effects and this card really is a must-have item because I haven't seen anything quite like it still as fantastic as the RGB lighting is we're probably more concerned with how the card actually performs from things like frame rates to the thermal performance so I will be hitting the Auris extreme with our usual battery of tests to see how it stacks up against other recently released r-tx 2080 graphics cards 20 atti graphics cards that is such as in videos found edition and MSI's gaming extra oh it's quite hard to remember all these models and their names but yeah the MSI's gaming extra probably the best model we've seen so far today's video sponsor is PCB way if you're after a custom PCB for your next project look no further they make high quality PCBs at affordable prices right now new members get a $5 bonus which covers their first order of ten one to two layer PCBs and they also offer an assembly service furthermore right now all PCB assembly orders enjoy free shipping worldwide so check them out link is in the video description before we get to the results I just like to go over the cards physical design and appearance it measures 29 centimeters long thirteen point four centimeters taller and six centimeters wide making it a triple slot card all up it weighs in at one thousand four hundred and two grams which actually makes it 16% lighter than the MSI gaming extroversion out of the box the card looks reasonably impressive and by out of the box I mean without it all lit up and taking advantage of those glorious high GPF X the plastic fan shroud has some nice silver aluminium trimmings and there are three 100 millimeter fans that look quite interesting particularly the center fan the outer fans have the underside of the tips removed whereas the top side of the center fan has been cut out so it looks very unusual and this allows the fans to overlap providing greater airflow coverage over the heatsink in order to avoid the turbulent air that this stack design would create the center fan spins in an alternate direction and then finally to maximize endurance the fans feature double ball bearings moving around to the back side of the card we find a large aluminium backplate featuring a large LED backlit Horace logo which is of course RGB LED backlit it weighs in at 124 grams and on the underside features three high quality thermal pads which extract heat from the backside of the PCB namely behind the GDD are six memory chips this is an important design aspect of the card and as you'll see later there is a serious amount of heat to deal with here moving around to the i/o panel we find three DisplayPort 1.4 outputs and three HDMI 2.0 B outputs along with a USB type-c port with virtual link support this is actually quite an impressive array of outputs the MSI next row for example only offers a single HDMI port along with its three display ports okay so I think we've looked at the card externally enough I think it's time to take it apart and get a good look at what's under that cooler and thankfully it's a pretty easy process to do this there's just ten screws in total on the backside and then a fare the four screws on the top side if you want to completely remove that back plate as well there's actually almost as many cables as there are screws well not quite those five in total but that's still quite a few cables for a graphics card so it's worth being aware of that if you do want to strip it down for whatever reason though I doubt you're gonna want to throw this cooler away to replace it the waterblock so taking off the cooler reveals a large PCB and here we find a few interesting things the highlight here though is the power delivery design which sees sixteen phases for the GPU and three phases for the GDD r6 memory and feeding power into the card is a pair of eight pin PCIe power connectors the cooler itself accounts for 940 grams of the cards total weight and 115 grams of that is the plastic shroud that goes around the fans this then means the heatsink and fans weigh 825 grams in total there are seven copper heat pipes all of which come in direct contact with the GPU and then also connected the fin stacks or a number of aluminium plates which you use to extract heat from the GDD r6 memory and vrm components ok so before we move on to talk about the factory clock speeds the overclocking performance of the card and of course thermals and let's put the Auris r-tx 28 ECI extreme back together and check out those RGB lighting effects firing up the RGB fusion software we find 13 different effects and for the most part you can adjust things like speed brightness and color it's also possible to save profiles to your PC and gigabyte has even included a few presets with some very nice effects I really liked the tricolor effect on for this one gigabyte has included a really awesome looking light blue blue and pink preset that looks just absolutely amazing using solid colors for the pulse and flashing effects looks pretty good as well I won't go over all the effects as there are quite a few of them we'd be here for ages going over all of them but there are a good number of really impressive effects and they can be fully customized to your build moving on the clock speeds it out of the box the boost clock has been set at seventeen hundred and seventy megahertz which is an eight percent increase over the founders edition model which is also overclocked to sixteen hundred and thirty five megahertz from the fifteen hundred and forty five megahertz for the official spec of course GPU boost 4.0 can take advantage of the massive cooler to boost clock speeds even higher stock it maintained 1.8 gigahertz and all of the games that we tested whereas the founders edition model around three percent lower at 17 hundred and fifty-five megahertz so when compared to the FE model don't expect any noticeable performance gains from this gigabyte model and where it should offer improvements is in the operating volume and temperatures and of course as we've just seen it's a much more impressive showpiece first thing I wanted to do before messing around with the settings in gigabyte soros engine will see how hot it ran in its stock out-of-the-box configuration so to do that I fired up f1 2018 and ran the benchmark at 4k on a continuous loop what I was keeping an eye on here was the GPU temperature and with a 76 degree reference temperature from the found Edition model and 72 degrees from the massive MSI gaming extra oh I was expecting something in that range and well that's what I got the Auris extreme peaked at 75 degrees which isn't a huge improvement over the FE model it's obviously only a degree improvement and it's a little bit disappointing particularly given that the fans were spinning at 2,000 rpm in comparison the MSI model achieved a three degree lower peak temperature with its fans spinning at just 1,400 rpm and it was also noticeably quieter meanwhile we see at the Auris extreme was comparable to the FE model in terms of temperature and operating volume which isn't bad though I was hoping it would be better the next step was to do a little tinkering and see just how fast we can make the Auris extreme after much trial and error the core accepted a value of plus 140 in the GDD r6 memory plus 700 this resulted in a peak or frequency of 2,000 megahertz when gaming and an average frequency after an hour-long stress test of nineteen hundred and eighty megahertz so not quite as good as the MSI model and very similar to what we saw with the FE model also for this overclock I did set the fan speed at 100% which spanned them up to 2800 rpm and here they were quite loud that said the GPU p2 just 70 degrees though we did have a reasonably low ambient air temperature of just 22 degrees throwing on some k-type thermocouple zorad us to measure the surface temperature of the power stages and GDD a sixth memory as well as some PCB temperatures and I'll throw those up on screen now using our overclock with the maximum fan setting the verum hit just 55 degrees with the memory hitting 62 degrees I should note though that is a 5 degree increase for both the memory and vrm over the MSI model ok time for a few quick benchmarks and since all our TX 20 IDT our graphics cards will provide a very similar level of performance we're not going to waste time going over loads and loads of gaming benchmarks since all the graphs are pretty much going to show us well pretty much the same thing for testing our standard core i7 87k GPU test rig was used the CPU was clocked at 5 gigahertz and we have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 3400 memory here we see when testing was shut over the tomb raider that the Auris extreme 2082 I match the MSI damming extra out of the box making it a few frames faster than the FE model as I mentioned earlier once overclocked to the MSI model dude holds slightly higher clock speeds and this allowed to provide an extra frame in this test so yeah as I said performance testing won't reveal anything we haven't really seen before we find a very similar story when testing with strange Brigade though this time the Auris extreme was slightly slower than the MSI gaming it's true out of the box and that margin was maintained once overclocked wrapping up the FPS testing we are Far Cry 5 and the margins here are basically identical to those seen previously the MSI gaming extra and it's bigger cooler enjoyed a very slight performance advantage though I doubt you'll notice the 1 to 2 extra frames when it came to power consumption the Auris extreme was again comparable to the MSI gaming extreme model as well as in videos found edition so in terms of framerate performance it was pretty much as expected not a lot to get excited over and well I pretty much knew that would be the case going into it this model really is all about those flashy RGB fans but yeah most r-tx 20 idgi graphics cards will provide a very similar level of performance especially out of the box and having said that though they probably will all provide the same very limited overclocking head room where the Auris extreme really stands out from the pack is in the RGB lighting department nothing I've seen so far comes even close to providing the wow factor of this gigabyte model as I said earlier if you begin to RGB lighting and you want a shelf you build them this really is a must-have item the range of available effects is very impressive and I found that the RGB fusion software worked flawlessly honestly there really isn't much to dislike here and although I suspect the price is going to be pretty horrendous that's par for the course with these r-tx 20 atti models cooling performance while certainly not bad was a little lackluster as the Auris extreme I was bested by MSI bigger and heavier gaming X trio and it really wasn't much better than nvidias foundation model which yet again it's quite disappointing but not exactly a bad result the back plate does tend to get very hot and if gigabyte could find an effective means of cooling it for future models that would really help here though unfortunately space is really limited on the back side of the card if you want to maintain maximum compatibility I should just note though of cooling is your primary concern then gigabytes or as extreme water for series I might be more what you're after and perhaps we'll review one of those models in the future and then of course as we've shown in this video MSI's gaming extra card is also very good I did very much like gigabytes GTX TDI water force extreme edition graphics card and I still actually have that in use today it's going strong no issues with the pump so yeah keen to check out the RT X xx atti models overall the gigabyte horas RT X xx atti extreme is a very solid offering the visuals are very much on point they look absolutely fantastic as you've seen the build quality seems very reasonable very good pretty much everything you'd expect from a premium high-end graphics card I know these things are mighty expensive but yeah it's as good as any card that I've seen so far so yeah all-round very solid offering and I have absolutely no problem recommending this beast if you're after a very flashy looking RT X xx atti graphics card to set off your build I'm actually a little bit disappointed it wasn't around when I put this thing together because I reckon having that there with it flashy lights maybe a bit distracting for that the set PC but still would be very impressive all the same anyway that is going to do it for 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