Graphics Card Specs: The Basics
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- TL;DR - Reviews and benchmarks are the most important thing to look at when buying a new graphics card.
But if you ARE curious as to what these specs mean, here's a video!
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Episode Credits:
Host: Riley Murdock
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I still don't know wtf I'm doing
42ang you can look up benchmarks for the games you want to play and just buy the card that fits your budget and game
I feel the same....I thought this was "the basics" too many big words...lol
Take your time
@@kiddrebelamv3599 Ask me any questions you have, I'm still pretty new but I may be able to clear some confusion.
@@shade0636 GeForce GTX 780 Ti, is this good?
in one ear out the other
Ok now i feel better
Hahaha best comment
Indeed brother.
I am not going to mess with those 666 like XD
Loser
*_-"How to download graphics card "-_*
Literally me running games on an old laptop
Buy APU - Graphics card is free
download lower graphics
420th like
Just pay to amazon and that's it Graphic card at you doorstep
who is here in 2024?
Me, don't have a gaming PC but I'm about to get one
Here in 2035.
I’m here
can't wait for the 1080ti so I can play Minecraft at 1080p 60fps!!
Tbh it's not funny at all
you dont play games in Hz. its FPS
Ｗｈｙｐａｈ ～ ＬｅａＮ You should really look up, what the unit Hz stands for.
Sarcasm. Is not a new concept guys.
With or without shaders?
...ah, so you're recommended brought you here too? You already watch Linus. You're familiar with Riley in his NCIX days. You already know a bunch about GPUs. But, you watch anyway, as you are a slave to the algorithm.
Ahhh yes.
Am I so predictable?
True
I honestly don't know anything about CUDA and clicked on the video because more knowledge doesn't hurt.
I don't know how I should feel now...
cant you just download VRAM just like you could with regular RAM?
YES, but it takes longer to download that "gaming" type.
Yes, but is harder to found on the internet, some links are malware :(
Sure you can, takes a while to find working links but I just downloaded extra 8 gb onto my gtx 970 and it's great!
Yes
DownloadMoreVram.com/NotA100%Scam
As long as you're running your ether net cable through your printer you'll be fine.
I'm only here to see how Riley was before techlinked
Muhammad hiari same lmao
Measuring TDP in Watts isn't that weird since heat is measured in Joules, and Watts is defined as Joules per second. So it's a number telling you the maximum amount of heat dissipated per second.
Thank you for making this video! I'm still relatively new to learning about computer specs but you help give a basic rundown of what some of these components mean. Your humor helps keep me engaged, and provides a better understanding of what you're trying to explain. You also offer sound advice and make me want to pursue further knowledge so that I can hopefully buy the computer I want. Again, thank you!
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you almost got it right at the end. but we went from 28(nvidia and amd) not 22, to 16 and 14 nm. Haswell for example on the cpu not gpu side was 22nm though
Love these kinda videos with definitions and lots of tech info stuff. I would love to see a maybe more complex and advanced video if these are just the basics :3
why was I recommended this now? also RIP ncix
its the algorithm you dunce stop asking the dumb question a million times.
I remember when I first got into computers really looking at the specs like rops, memory bandwidth, and stream processors. Now days I just watch "in game" benchmarks because that is what it really boils down to. I also loved Tiger Direct's youtube series back in like 2008-9ish with Logan, it was like NCIX of the decade past. Nostalgic
Please do more Basics videos! This was great. My tech knowledge just came from watching a bunch of different tech youtubers. But I never watched a video that truly explains it all. I just picked up as I went.
Your definition of thermal throttling is wrong. Thermal throttling is when the card drops below its BASE clock, not maximum BOOST clock. GPU boost will push a card as far as it can go with the available power until a thermal limit is reached. If it hits that thermal barrier, it will slightly decrease the boost until temps drop back in line and then boost back up again. Sounds similar to thermal throttling, but it isnt. Thats just the way GPU boost works.
Thanks for the info, do I need separate cooling for it, even if it has two fans, so that it won't hit the thermal barrier even if I use it for 12 to 14 hours at around 34 degree centigrade?
Rice noodles 4 years later lmao
@@ricenoodles8024 no you won't need anything else if your card is running at 34' Celsius
I'd love to see similar videos about the other components!
I'm so happy he puts way more of his personality into his current videos :)
Haha 2 years ago
@@purplenoodle1023 Haha 5 months ago
@@oshane7783 haha 1 year ago
Vram doesn't matter. You can always download load some if you need more.
RIP In Peace
i downloaded some a few weeks ago, it came in a nice protective box after 3-5 business days ;)
Can i also download more power supply?
+Threebow™ auto correct
True story actually, when I was very very new into computers (im talking like 10 years old) and didnt know much about computer hardware, I thought RAM was the main component that did all the 3D and rendering work, so naturally I thought adding more to the computer would increase performance. So naturally, I thought I could just download it, as I hadnt learnt about building a PC prior to that time. Went online, downloaded a program, aaaaand it was a virus that fucked the computer.
the „Tech Tips” part from „NCIX Tech Tips” is back! :D
I really liked the vid, you explain everythig well (before this, I had no idea what a GPU/video card was) and it's also funny, so good combo (yes i subbed)!
I'm 12, and I got made fun of for not knowing stuff about Pcs yesterday at best buy, so here I am...
Wow, what an insecure looser that worker (I assume) must be.
I've never met anyone at a Best Buy that knew anything about computers so don't worry, on top of being insecure, they were frauds :-)
In case anyone is interested, from speaking to my lecturers about this, the “process” mentioned at 6:43 is apparently VERY vaguely defined, some define it as being the smallest distance between individual devices (transistors/diodes/etc), some define it as the smallest device itself, some define it using another parameter, there’s isn’t really a 100% set industry definition
Isn't it just the size of the gates of the transistor?
@@ozordiprince9405 No, not really. Like even if you took that as the definition, a transistor is 3D, which one of the dimensions in it would this measurement be? Like I said, these sizes aren’t standardised so I’d take them with a pinch of salt.
Really need more videos like this for the rest of the components. Please!
Sorry, sorta unrelated question, what are those glasses?
vertebral like Ray-Ban with custom details, idk either
uummm...... the last gen of CPU processors used 22nm but GPUs used 28nm.... being as you were talking about GPUs its kind of misleading cause you showed a CPU chart and were talking about GPUs
and the last gen of GPUs didn't use 22nm.. they used 28nm
Agreed!
Though the process of shrinking the node is kind of the same in both CPUs and GPUs, and the chips themselves are not that different, with the exception that the CPU is made to be able to handle a variety of different kinds of calculations while the GPU is made to only handle a few kinds.
Plus, I think that most that look at this doesn't know the history of the 80286 and around that area. That 80486 DX-2 though. Beast back in its day! :D
ProfessorSlash I wanna say the main difference was Intel was the only manufacturer that could get 22nm to work well enough for production, that's what I heard, and maxwell, and AMD's last gen both are advertised as 28nm...I think too many people look solely at the node size as to how fast it'll be and they don't pay enough attention to architecture improvements cause they don't fully understand that part... not that that fact isn't kinda key to Nvidia n Intel's success... if everybody understood the architecture improvements they'd use them as well and everybody'd be as fast as them
Chris Rowlison Yeah, I've heard something about it not being stable and putting out too much heat on such a small area that lower than 28nm was a problem on GPU cores.
I've also heard that this finFET technology that's being used is about as effective as a "normal" 22nm core. Not at all sure about the validity of those claims though.
Yeah, about the specs. People should really look at the performance instead.
In almost EVERY way, the RX 480 should be faster than the GTX 1060. The only thing that the latter has is more ROPs.
This may be because Nvidia is really good at using the thing to it's theoretical max. (may be the tile based rastering that's going around)
Either way, it'd be really interesting if the Radeon group could push the performance to an extent that Nvidia has when comparing specs to performance. Would also be great for us, consumers.
+ProfessorSlash In Vulcan and directx 12 titles they are really close. Nvidia probably has the edge because developers tend to optimize for Nvidia and Nvidia spends more on driver optimization.
omfg i can undertsand what he just said 0-0 thank you so much you have no idea how long i waited for this
This is a really informative and helpful video!!!👍🏼
Hope to see more of these frm u guys!!😁
Wow, this guy looks so much like Riley from Linus tech tips!
Please do more explained videos
what are the bits (128 , 256 , 384 . etc) in video cards
Coming from a different type of electronics, is there a way to parallel two graphics cards? Could you enhance the performance of you used PCI express, used identical graphics cards with the same driver and split the USB connection. I’m just thinking outside the box. In audio, paralleling speakers drops ohm loads on amps drawing more current. Or could you daisy chain the riser connections? Is there a way to increase ram on a graphics card?
Your hair looks really stylish :D
Flashlight _ thanks so much!
asymmetrical, not nice
I'd have liked more explanation as to why SPUs, ROPs and TAUs don't matter when comparing graphics cards from different architectures/generations.
Imagine you have a gun with 500 bullets, but you suck at firing guns. Your friend has a gun with only 100 bullets, but he's trained with it longer. You have more bullets, but hes more likely to shoot down the target. Different architectures handle the specs differently and newer ones are more efficient so even if a newer card has worse Spu,Rop,or Tau specs, it could perform better.
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but how? That's what I wanna know. I mean, where does the efficiency actually come from?
shorter paths on a smaller architecture means less time for electrical currents to travel resulting in higher possible clockspeeds. there are lots of factors but this is a major one for going to a smaller architecture.
Finding a faster way of doing something. Say you want to know if 34 is divisible by 2, well you can keep subtracting 2 and see if it reaches 0, or you can check whether the last digit is even or not. This is similar to how they make architectures more efficient. They find a faster and more efficient way of doing something.
If you want more depth than that then im afraid youll have to become an electrical engineer and programmer and join Nvidia, AMD, or Intel.
There are other factors at play here like shorter paths between circuits like another commenter mentioned.
PENDANTturnips
Yes but that offers zero insight whatsoever, you just basically tried to explain efficiency with an unrelated analogy. I don't know much about hardware but I am a software engineer btw.
im lost. I was lookin for how to download more RAM. Im pretty sure I can download an 8 TB HDD to my PC right?
What about asynchronous computes, floating points 64, 32, 16 and opencl
What why is youtube recommending this to me? 🤣
Idk but young Riley is hilarious to see 😂😂
What is my card has 256 MB of GDDR2? You only mentioned GDDR5
get another one
It means that your card is old af. DDR2 (NOT GDDR2 because graphics memory wasn't a thing) was the standard back when ATI wasn't purchased by AMD.
Your GPU is basically old as hell and you need to upgrade either your GPU or your entire rig.
@needskillnow
i think either he now that or he just trolling key for not mentioning it
V-RAM: DDR1 -> DDR2 -> DDR3 (early/cheap cards once GDDR5 launched) -> GDDR4 (skipped mostly) -> GDDR5 (mainstay currently, budget cards in future when GDDR5X & HBM2 kick off for high-end cards) -> GDDR5X & HBM/2.
SysRAM: DDR1 -> DDR2 -> DDR3 -> DDR4.
great video very informative. any specific places you think are reliable to check benchmarks?
i have a GTX1080 plugged in to a standard PCI express port v1.
*_IS THAT BAD?_*
You're saying way too many things, I just want to know which card to get so Overwatch doesn't look like shit on my laptop
Cesar Ordonez bruh these cards are too big to fit inside a laptop dumbass these are for pcs
Jayden Milam no shit bitch, can you not see my lack of knowledge by my previous post
action jackson i have a gtx 240 and i can run overwatch perfectly
Overwatch looks like shit regardless
on a laptop? why waste your money on a laptop you can't upgrade...? 2 grand for a gaming laptop, get a gaming PC for half that price and you can get better parts in 2-3 years when they become obsolete.
Awesome video, will be really helpful for lots of people!
Thanks for this video, I'm in the market for upgrading and some of these terms have been a little hard to understand as well.
Excellent video, funny and informative. Nice job guys!
Last generation was 28nm not 22nm
The first episode of NCIX's new show: QuickTechie.
And it's totally not a copy of some other channel on the Internet by someone who used work here who's name is pretty similar to QuickTechie, right?
@@tylerweigand8875 wooosh
@@DionMango mate did you really woosh me three years later when I wasn't even wooshed
Thank you! I needed this. I always watch video card reviews, but never know what what half of the specs mean.
Can y'all do a video on why you clock speeds are lower than cpu's? Would they require cooling like a cpu? Is space an issue? Would liquid cooled work?
I have been running 1440p for over 2 years and nothing has ever used over 4gb yet.
Try the ultra hd texture pack in Shadows of Mordor with all settings on max at 1440P, then come back.
I have and I did.
It will only use what you have. There are definitely games that use more than 4GB.
Agreed but none that require it to run just fine. Yes with more it can run better but 4gb will deliver a good gaming experience. Running everything at max is not the only way to game.
So u didnt play a lot of games. For example GTA V use a lot of VRAM.
True king of nerds, great vids for nerdians. I got lost in the 3 minute play so..... yeah.
Great video! The exact info that newbies need!
Thanks for the informational video's ! Well .... When playing a video game should you run your cooling fan's on Auto or a Manual setting ? Will it effect it's capabilities? A lil information .
i feel like if he got rid of his glasses and had a decent hair cut and style he would be hot as hell (no homo)
CR7NEYMAR I like the glasses and his hair is beautiful
yes you are
Yall gay
CR7NEYMAR bruh you sus
He is totally my type rn
Did this randomly pop in anyone elses recommended.
yep
you guys should make more videos like this. reminds me of the old ncix that I subbed too back in the days.
Whats the difference between memory bus width and bandwidth. I had followed this up until this point.
I have never seen him so serious...
Well they're gpu's and you have to be pretty serious about them because you know... Ok i dont know what the fuck im talking about
Okay now explain this to me as if I was a 5 year old 👁️👄👁️
😂
So there is an hdmi port on my motherboard and my gpu so which one do I use?
If a GTX 950 or 960 will utilize 100% of it's potential in a PCIe 3.0 slot then how much less would it perform in a PCIe 1.0? E.G: 50% or 75% of it's total normal. I'm asking because I need to upgrade my current shitty CyberpowerPC's Radeon HD 6450 sooner than a whole new system next year with Zen.
Last Gen was 28nm.
knob
Fact: U didn't search for this
But I did need it
What? Why?
False fact lol
This is what I was looking for, excellent video :>
Good info but I'm still missing info...
What about half size and low profile? Are they the same or does one refer to height and the other length?
My SFF has a wattage limit and I don't want to upgrade the power supply unless I have to.
I'll need to do more research.
wtf... i go on this Video 3 dislikes 2 likes
linus logan and JZ :)
actually their all linus.
Sony Microsoft & Nintendo
this is meta 'first'
Better than Techquickie, only because is straightforward. TOO MANY FARTS, DENIS!!!!
Also without sponsored ads!
This is just NCIX realizing that Techquickie is more popular and trying to copy them.
But they do better.
I agree
Agreed better that Techquickie, but design for more advance audience
good job on the explaining
We're learning about GPU's do you expect us to know all of these name brands or the numbers at the end mean?
how to get infite goldstars : watch video once learn it and watch again
I like your humor, it's like watching The Big Bang Theory, except it's not funny.
so, exactly like watching The Big Bang Theory.
^Savage.
Big Bang theory sucks
ikr
The cancer ward at a children's hospital is funnier than The Big Bang Theory.
Thank you i am new computer building enthusiasts and i did not not now how to decide what gpu i need and parts of a graphics card before watching this video
When I buy a second hand GPU. I first look for the serial number on the card and use that code and do an internet search it identify my card. I thirdly download the latest BIOS after identification and after installation I load the program GPUZ on my computer to get my card's spec. All I know is that the higher the numbers the better.
I'll just get an xbox
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This was Dope! even for people who do have some idea of what's happening this is still useful
this is good relying on this video for my school work
can someone explain why there are so many types of like 1 graphics card. like msi 1080, asus 1080, evega 1080, zodiac 1080 etc. whats the diffrence?
Very useful video ... I had no clue on pcs till I just watched this video
super educational, thanks.
can you do a video with some more advanced stuff
So how are older pixel and (don remember the other one- vertex?) Shaders different to cuda cores and stream processors?
Awesome, thanks, informative
I am still very confuse about the graphic card bit rate, how does it really works? Is it really shows different in a monitor for 128 bit and 384bit? I need some info
Finally now i can know more about these stuff... Great video
Are ROCs able to render to a visual cortex? Directly of course... i.e. no interface (screen etc)
Okay so all I heard was “the gpl 52817 slr helps the 82 hsv o926 card but depends because if games can’t run jsg628 or kal 973 then it’ll be hard to play”
1:18 see that clear plastic cover? Causes it to run around 8 degrees hotter. I removed mine, and now it's running at 73 degrees tops
any link to the site where you download RAM?
so if im looking for a gtx 550 ti would it be the same if i buy it from gigabyte or nvidia or any other vendor but with the same model name?
So helpful! Definitely helped me
I want to build a gaming pc but I don't know what gpu should i buy for better performance and future proof i want to play all games at 1080p on hight or ultra should i buy the radeon amd rx 480 the evga gtx 970 acx 2.0 ftw or the gigabyte GeForce gtx 1060 6 gb ? and my cpu is the i5 6600 with 16 gb ram ddr4 2133mhz .. please help
What about bits?Whats the difference between the GPUs with higher and lower bits?
What GPU you recommend to edit GH5 4K 10bit files in Premier Pro? Thanks
How many times do. Have to listen to this to understand it ?
Great video! I learned alot! Thanks!
What if i put 16 gb ram and external gpu in my old laptop having i3 processor? Would i be able to play heavy games and operate heavy softwares? Plz help
I want a graphics card able to 1080p well with a possibility of video streaming. I also want a dual monitor setup up. I have been looking at a 4gb graphics card but unsure and cant find any reviews on youtube please help...
Doing product reaserch ain't enough. It helps a lot knowing about how hardware and software works (or how they don't work).
Hello. I have 1 question. Can i install GTX 1050 Ti and quadro p600 in one computer? Thanks for answer :)
i just wanted to know what vram clock speed does but thats the one thing that is not mentioned
Alright, I have a GTX 1060, it's not bad, it's good for beginners or just a starting point, but I play a few competitive type games that basically force a good GPU, so what should I look into?