Hey everybody how's it going welcome to Paul's hardware today's video is an unboxing that's kind of what my life is now like boxes show up usually there for AMD I take them out of the box I show you guys before I begin I want to start off by Dedicating this video to Steve from gamers nexus Steve He's kind of like one of those characters who's just a little bit on the on the grumpy side sometimes you know he's like He's like scrooge in a Christmas story or something like that but Steve hates unboxings He thinks they're awful and they're useless. I thought that if you guys maybe reached out to Steve You could share maybe this unboxing with him and perhaps bring some love and joy for unboxings back into his heart That or he can just stay focused on actually doing useful stuff with the things he unboxes But um, all right you guys probably already know it's in these. It's probably in the title. This is for AMD This is probably gonna be bigot spoiler alert, but I got two boxes I'm gonna start off with the bigger one here because this one showed up first and if you can't tell I already kind of opened it But I've kind of put it back together So you guys can have the unboxing experience too AMD has Vega on the horizon It's supposed to be launching very soon and here in the box inside the box is a box inside a box Doesn't look like there's much going else going on in that outer box I did remember my spider coat today or I was able to find it thankfully, so let's dive right into this one See what's inside All right, there's our reveal right right from the get go radion rx Vega this feels This feels very plush. I feel like AMD has been doing a lot more work Or they've been putting a lot more work into their like Engineering samples and the stuff they're sending out to reviewers. That's all that's inside there though Here's the box now this box according to what AMD has told us is not the Box that you're gonna get if you buy Vega at retail This is a special design box if they just did for reviewers, but you will be able to get at least the card that's inside here On the top though we got the rx Vega logo bring gaming to life system requirements are on this side It does say a minimum 750 watt system power supply with two eight playing graphics connectors This is a by 16 slot eight gigs of HBM2 memory in there 16 gigs of system memory recommended Linux Windows 7 or Windows 10 And you do want a 64 bit operating system do people still even use Non-64 bit operating systems and not sure back. There's like this rubberized texture kind of going across the entire top of this thing It does have a Vega logo there on one side actually on both sides and then the radion Vega logo Radio radion RX Vega which is right there on the top as well So this kind of opens up like this with the flat in the front and over the top and Then off the sides as well. It's hard to say which way is up though the whole thing just kind of opens up and lays flat I guess on the desk kind of like that. So let's start off with this guy right in the middle. This is our Vega radion Vega cube Which doesn't look like the reactive one like the one that line is got This is more of just an actual Acrylic cube with the Vega logo suspended in the middle. I can't I'm curious if this If you could set this on top of something and have light kind of go up through it or something like that But it is pretty cool looking and it well at the very least look very nice next to my my thread ripper acrylic panel thing So that's coming soon. I don't think there's anything else tucked away under this panel right here or behind this panel This is all foam. We do have a little booklet right over here. It says radion rx Vega bring gaming to life and a little little flip book action here Until now game developers have been shackled by hardware limitations unable to witness the full extent of their Imaginations it's very marketing Vega is disruptive and there's pictures and look they have a picture of the unboxing experience that I just did I guess in case I miss anything Some stuff about drivers and system requirements Some fancy look at that It's like a hand of Somebody apparently there's a there's a demon hidden inside the Vega logo that reaches out grasping to Suck the life out of competing graphics cards, I guess not really sure all right This is where the graphics card itself is we got one more little tucked away piece on the side here with oh That's kind of fun So we got the bring gaming to life Vega wristband I should probably put that on and then in here we have an actual Vega GPU This is a dummy GPU so it's not actually functional so kind of similar to what they did with the thread ripper They're actually sending out. Oh, it's even got the balls on the bottom. It's got cider balls on the bottom BGA actual Vega chip right there so you can see the hbm2 stacks right there an actual Vega die So that's really cool to have I feel like I should find a case or something like that to put this in as well Beyond that though some stickers are also included in here and that does seem to be just about it's but that's a really cool add-on I really like having a dummy GPU dies like just have around for size comparisons And they're just a fun thing to have that you don't get to hold on to very often all right now the actual GPU inside this little case right here and I do I have the air cooled version of Vega 64 right here. Oh, yeah, and again just really plush Packaging here that AMD has put together for this reviewer's kits and there we can see the Vega 64 GPU and all of its glory This is the air cooled addition with the blower style fan again, which you guys probably have already seen maybe a little bit Since we already kind of showed this at the unboxing event that they had about a week and a half ago There's a GPU tack on that side so you can actually see that when the system is under load There's a visual indication indicator of it right there You can switch those GPU tech lights between red and blue so you can have it match up with your system lighting a little bit more if That's something that you want to go for and then for video outs over here on this end We have three display port as well as a full-size HDMI and a black back plate as well, which I think looks pretty cool there So there's a quick look at the radion Vega 64 O dual 8 pin PC express graphics power connectors as well right in there And I am going to get this installed and start testing it right away Also, there's the little pixel or if you want to say it properly a voxel right there a volumetric pixel with the radion logo It's on that corner as well and a really cool looking card Hopefully it's actually cool as well when it's actually tested and everything like that But now that that's out of the box. I have one more to deal with All right box number one is handled. Let's move on to box number two. This one was slightly less expected I think they were talking about getting the Vegas 56-outs people this one's gonna be a bit more reasonably priced It's gonna be 400 bucks Assuming of course that people could find them at that price after launch actually happens and we'll see These cards get bought up by Queen miners or that kind of thing But in the meantime at least we are gonna give you guys a benchmark when when we're allowed to publish them But this one is obviously a little bit more like It doesn't have quite the same plush packaging and everything, but you know what? I don't really care. I am I'm still stoked either way that I not only have the Vega 64 But I've also got the Vega 56 and with this one since we have the standard edition rather than the limited edition We can actually give you a little side-by-side comparison of the two So this quick side-by-side Vega 64 Vega 56 limited edition non-limited edition the non-limited edition looks very similar to What they did with the Fiji cards is originally doesn't look bad at all definitely by any stretch a lot simpler design as far as it's got Just sort of a plain black aesthetic for most of it a bit of texture on the top as we have also seen before But blower style clue again, and we're not expecting that the Non-special edition cards are gonna perform any less than than the special edition cards It's just you don't get that brush metal finish on the outside and all that good stuff You do still get um functionally all the same stuff though So you know again dual a pin power connectors there at the top the GPU tech lights with LEDs that you can again turn on or off or switch between blue and red And then just sort of a simpler design overall with a little bit more plastic involved than the metal that you get on the special edition And then you do get the same video outs at the bottom, but again You you don't get the black backplate on there. So you know just just doesn't look quite as it's fancy as a special edition Delay pin power connectors, you know, you wouldn't expect anything different there either And then Like that's all I can tell you guys about these cards right now. I wish I could go into more depth For these I can just not right now and I can't even really tell you guys when that's gonna happen either But guys I think in the interest of getting some work done on these I'm going to switch over to benchmarking mode and start working on them I will be bringing you some content on these with some benchmarks very soon as soon as I'm allowed to And of course before I go a quick reminder to let Steve know that unboxings aren't completely useless Like you guys watch this video and I bet you're smarter now I bet you know more things and I bet your opinions of Vega have been greatly impacted by the fact that I just took these out of the box And showed them to you, right? 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