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welcome back to harbor unbox today we're checking out our first-ever P&Y product on hair for testing is there RTX 2080 graphics card now this is the xlr8 you see I believe that's accelerate OC we'll go with accelerate anyway because it's a lot easier to say so this is a dual slot card it has two fans as you can see and it is based on the reference PCB so it's a bit of a standard affair but I do like the fact that it is a dual slot card because most of the dual fan models take up two and a half or while they occupy three PCI Express slots or three expansion slots before we get too far into this review I will just get one of the bigger issues with this product out of the way just yeah deal with this one first and that is the price for what is a very basic looking r-tx 2080 graphics card the pen way accelerate yeah it ain't cheap it comes in at $800 u.s. which is a series premium over the 700 other models which are finally down to the $700 MSRP so that's kind of nice but yeah this one this one isn't it's also 50 dollars more than the bigger gigabyte gaming OC version that we reviewed almost three months ago now of course if it can deliver similar thermal performance that I guess the premium can be somewhat justified for those seeking a dual slot card though gigabyte does have they've reinforced three model down at $700 and it also only requires two slots anyway before we put the card to the test let's take a quick look at the cooler and PCB design in total the car weighs just 807 grams and that makes it 17% lighter than the gigabyte gaming OSI model and 40% lighter than nvidias founders Edition so this could make it difficult for P and wise RT X 2080 accelerate to match the thermal performance of the 2080s that we've already tested the cooler that is to say the heatsink and fans weighs in at 560 grams and that's 30% lighter than the cooler featured on gigabytes Gaming OSI model the cooler features a copper base plate five copper pipes and two 85 millimeter fans pushing out over the and heatsink the GDD r6 memory and vram components are all cooled via the same heatsink using aluminium contact plates moving to the card itself we find it's fairly standard in terms of dimensions it's 265 millimeters long 110 millimeters tall and on the PCB we find a very standard 8 + 2 phase vrm using on semiconductor power stages and we also find a standard 6 + 8 pin power connector configuration then of course we have that massive Turing and GPU codename tu-104 400 a a 1 there's also 8 1 gigabyte GD - 6 memory chips providing an 8 gigabyte vm buffer and the chips in question of microns mtk 61k 256 m 32 je - 14 a and this is of course their fourteen gigabits per second memory flipping the card over and unfortunately we don't find a backplate a big oversight for a card that cost $800 us so yeah shame to see that okay so out of the box accelerate OC comes with a core clock speed of fifteen hundred and fifteen megahertz resulting in a boost frequency of eighteen hundred and fifteen megahertz that's said when gaming the frequency held steady at eighteen hundred and seventy-five megahertz which is the same frequency our foundation model runs up for those wondering the gigabyte gaming OC maintained 1890 megahertz so really not much difference there that said the big difference can be seen when looking at the temperature for a reference the founders issue model hits 76 degrees in the gaming OC picked at just 64 degrees the accelerate you see on the other hand though that only matched in videos Fe model hitting 76 degrees we're still while the fans on the gigabyte cards spun at just 1400 RPM and whisper quiet the fans on the pen wire card were whizzing away at 2200 rpm and this makes the unimpressive temperature well even less impressive going all in I decided to crank up the fans to full speed which saw them spin at 3400 rpm and here they were very loud as you might expect that said this might be a good option for headphone users as it did drop the GPU temperature down to just 61 degrees as for overclocking we were able to maintain a clock speed of 2025 megahertz which is the same result provided by the EFI model the Josie went slightly higher at 2040 megahertz and as I've said in the past it's more important to focus on the operating temperature and board design rather than the OSI result is that we will vary depending on how well you do with the Silicon lottery when just quickly the GDD are six memory went up from seventeen hundred and fifty megahertz to nineteen hundred and twenty five megahertz so there's a nice 10 percent boost they're finally throwing on a few k-type thermocouple allowed us to measure the surface temperature of the power stages and GDD are six memory our overclock using the auto fan speed settings saw the vrm idle at 36 degrees and the memory at 38 degrees then under load the vrm hits 66 degrees and the memory 71 degrees go through acceptable temperatures but they are considerably higher than what we saw with the gigabyte gaming OC version okay so time for some FPS performance and as usual i'm using my corsair GPU test rig built inside the crystal series v 7x packing a core i7 87 okay clocked at 5 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of vengence ddr4 3400 memory I'm not gonna bother going over many games for this one 3 will certainly do these cards will deliver very similar frame rates so it's a pretty boring benchmark session so that being the case let's just blast through these benchmark results starting with battlefield one here we see the same out-of-the-box performance with the Pnyx i/o you see that was seen previously with the gigabyte gaming scene and video founders Edition overclocked we also see similar performance across the three cards tested so nothing too exciting here though 83 FPS on average at 4k using ultra quality settings certainly is impressive much the same as seen when testing with strange brigade out of the box the custom overclocked PMI accelerate OC is able to match the gigabyte gaming OC and found edition models the custom overclock didn't boost performance by much but it was enough to keep frame rates above 60 FPS on our test so that's kind of nice then last we have shadow the Tomb Raider and you guessed it comparable performance to what we've already seen but I suppose that's a good thing not much more to say here Elise let's focus on the power consumption for use as you might have expected at this point the power consumption of the PNY accelerate OC is comparable to that our previously tested our GX 2080 graphics cards overclocking only increased total system drop by 6 percent at least in a three tests so that's very reasonable and out of the box are consumed less power than the found edition model okay so time to wrap this up what do I make of the P and why accelerate oh you see a graphics card well it's pretty average if I'm honest it's one redeeming feature I would say is the fact that it is a dual slot card though even that is a bit questionable I'm not exactly sure if it's any better than gigabytes win for three version which currently sells for $700 so there's $100 cheaper and yeah that's also a dual slot card so I can't say for sure if this is better than gigabytes version but I kind of doubt it based on what we've seen even if they are very similar in terms of cooling performance there's no getting around the fact that the P my card costs $100 more that's a serious price premium for the same money you can pick out gigabytes phenomenal looking or at extreme or how about so tax massive and perdition or for $50 let's get em sis Ventus or heck even gigabytes gaming Oh see that we called on for comparison multiple times in this video point is there is a boatload of options for prospective r-tx 2080 buyers and many of them are either much cheaper or just better equipped for the $700 MSRP the PMI excite OC would be a decent enough offering but at $800 it's a hard pass for now the cooler really just isn't good enough the overall design is very basic and the card lacks a backplate the i/o panel is very standard it uses the reference PCB design and it feels like the RGB light bar thing has just been included so they can stick RGB on the box hang on a minute I have to take that back there's actually no mention of a ogtp on the box at all let's try their website no no mention of RGB light bar thingy there either though there is a picture of it all lit up something that I wasn't actually able to experience I mean in any color other than green yeah so get this there is no way to control the RGB light bar by default it's meant to just color cycle you know the classic rainbow effect but for some reason mine was just stuck on green pmy has no ETA for when owners if there are TX cards we've got to modify the lighting so no idea if and when you'll actually had a control the light bar so at least for now it's worse than useless so given the lackluster cooling performance and the while I suppose the sort of broken RGB sliding and the ridiculous price let's not forget the $800 u.s. price for this very average RTX 2080 graphics card yeah I'd skip over this one if it drops down to the MSRP then it may be worth considering though the lighting kind of makes it really annoying so they kind of want to address that with some sort of software feature but I feel like yeah it's just included for the sake of having our GB it it kind of would have been nicer without it anyway I think I've said all I need to say on this one if you'd enjoyed the video please hit the like button subscribe for more content if you appreciate the way with your home box then consider supporting us on patreon thank you for watching I'm your host Dave see you next time