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hey what's going on Tech fans good morning and welcome back once again to Tecna Mar we have a brand new video launch from the people over at AMD I know there's some people out there going to be disappointed because this is in Vega but Vega will be here it just will be here on quarter 1 of 2018 this is basically a Polaris refresh that's right the technology behind it is the Polaris 20 so it's brand new in some ways but brie fresh and others because a lot of things in this card you're going to see are kind of the same things that we saw in the 470 and 480 now the 580 which I have here in my hands this is the new top-of-the-line dog from the people over at AMD now like I said I know many people out there or expecting Vega but this just isn't Vega so please don't beat me up for that I'm not going to releasing the car but first up we have a power color pretty much the golden samples you guys can see of the brand new RX 580 pretty nice card going to come to market probably anywhere between $229 and $259 depending on where you get it I wasn't able to actually find and nail down the exact price in this particular card but what that said here it is so let's jump in real quick let's check out the card itself the specs the scores and then talk about this card and see at the end of the day is it worth buying a brand new card or keeping your old card let's jump in alright folks so here we have it the power color Red Devil RX 518 you guys can see this thing permeates the red and black theme which i think is cool because those are themes that AMD is known for so I think it's cool to keep the card that color why make it some other weird color just in my book doesn't matter now the two fans on top they may look like normal fans but they actually have two ball bearings inside of them to make them last longer and actually has 20% more efficiency than your standard fans the design also looks pretty cool you guys can see all of the heat fins underneath that all that aluminum stuff keeping this card cool and just all in all I think it looks pretty doggone badass now take a look at the rear of the card you guys can once again see lots of those alumina heat fans you can also see the power connector for the fans there as well now it's kind of hard to see since the card hasn't shroud and everything on it but underneath there there are five heat pipes along with all those aluminum heat fans to help dissipate all that heat away from your card and keep it running cool take a look at the bottom of the card you guys can clearly see those heat pipes I was talking about earlier now taking a look at the top of the card I'm the very far left on the top you guys can see there's a bio switch this is a switch between the dual bio so if you burn one out when you're trying to overclock you can switch back to the other one keep up and going and then flash the other once you can be up and going with that one as well now if we move over a little bit more to the right there's also an RGB button this turns on or turns off your RGB lighting next to that are the two power connectors this card requires a single six pin and a single eight pin power connector and AMD recommends that you use a minimum of the 600 watt power supply to power this beast and last but not least let's check out those outputs there's a single DVID connection three display ports and a single HDMI connection the DisplayPort is 1.4 and the HDMI is 2.0 B now on the back plate we once again see the Seal of Solomon on here and it's very tough and rugged to smack our hands on you know it's not going to break it's durable it could probably even kill a camera now we won't go there all right so that's what the card looks like now let's check out the specs the RX 580 features 2300 for stream processors 140 for TM news and 32 Rob's it has eight gigabytes of gddr5 memory and a 256-bit memory interface and like I said before the chipset behind this is the Polaris 20x TX and just like the RX 480p rx 580 is made in the 40 nanometer FinFET process now for those wondering what is the size of this card well in inches the card is 9.5 inches long and 5 inches high and features a dual slot design the Red Devil rx 580 comes overclocked right out of the box for the base clock of 1340 megahertz and a boost clock of 1425 so now that we've got past that let's talk about the test system and the reason that I use the test system that I did now most of the time when I test video cards I usually test on a high end Intel system that's just the way we've always been doing things around here but I figure let's do something different this time since this card is pretty much in the budget range of less than $300 I'm sure people are going to want to see it tested with a $500 CPUs $600 CPU so why not use something that's in that range so we chose to use our system with the 1600 exit do you guys want more information about that system we'll have a link down below but basically it's a liquid-cooled system features the h-11 zero cooler by Corsair that's pretty much the system if you guys want all more details of both I want to ramble on about that in this video you guys can check that out but I pretty much thought that this system being that you could put it on a be 350 and there's not too much differences between the chipsets you could build your own system around this very very cheaply and then put this card in it and be good to go and we've seen that if you overclock the 16x you can almost get the same performance that you're getting on a 1700 X and an 1800 X so why buy those expensive CPUs when you get the same performance on the AMD platform with the 1600 X but what that said let's jump in let's rock out to the benchmark song and check out if this card does against the competition all right so there you have it the RX 580 and all of its glory so I'm kind of a little bit kind of weird on this card I mean yes it is faster than the 480 and you guys can see it even beats in overclock 1060 and a lot of tests but the thing about this car that really trips me out the most though is how much power it takes to power this damn card I mean it's got the same recommendation for a power supply as a 1080i and that's just really crazy like when I went to go build my crossfire system and put this stuff in I put the cards in it went holy I'm have to get a whole new power supply to put this in here requires a lot of power and that to me is kind of the downfall of the car but something that's good about the card however it is you guys can see out of all the tests that we ran this card runs the coolest out of them all so that means there's going to be plenty of headroom in the future to possibly do some great overclocking on a release day with everything new the drivers and all that stuff new I'm not going to bring me overclock in the table because you guys all know as the drivers developed everything around this you know just gets better the card is going to get faster the overclocking is going to get better so I'm going to wait at least a week or two before I do my overclocking but if you don't have a video card out there whatsoever you're a solid AMD fan this thing does come to market at cheaper than the RX 480 RX 40 we're seeing it like 269 this card sells for underneath that for damn sure so if you're just jumping into the market for a card I say this is an excellent card now if you already own an RX 480 will I go out and just dump that card and jump into this card I really don't think I would for one thing like I said a second ago I'm really not too happy with how much power this thing needs taking almost as much power as a 1080i which is a card that's literally like it's almost twice as fast that to me is a little bit crazy you will need a single pen for the 1060 you only need a single pen for the 480 so that's my opinion folks like usual we'll have all the information about this card down below that like button hopefully you guys like this video so all-in-all there it is folks at the end of the day the Refresh is what it is it's a refresh I know it's not what you were looking for it's not really what I was expecting either but hey AMD's got to do something until Vega gets here right so peace out my tech brothers and sisters