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in this box I have a suspiciously cheap RTX
3060 that I bought off of AliExpress and as is the case with everything off of AliExpress
lately it took a weirdly long time to ship I think it took over a month to come even though
I paid extra for FedEx shipping now this RTX 3060 cost the equivalent of 240 US Dollars and
apparently it’s new it says so in the title of the listing the price isn’t the only dodgy
thing about the listing I’m looking to do six gigs of video memory but it’s almost a hundred
and forty dollars less than the cheapest RTX 3060 you can buy in the US at the moment so I’m
expecting at least Defcon 3 level shenanigans thank you oh this FedEx packaging I think is paper that’s
a first usually it’s covered in enough plastic to strangle at least three harbor seals so that’s
cool although they do lose some of the points for blatantly lying on the bag it did not come
in an extremely urgent manner not even almost oh never mind there’s all the plastic
although it is good to see that box tape man still has a job you can see they
did an immaculately even job very nice yeah this just keeps looking more
and more like something they had to smuggle inside the FedEx llama
maybe that’s why it took so long look okay that is a graphics card oh oh would
you look at that it actually seems to have a mobile RTX 3060 die in it that is very very
interesting uh wait does it say anything about that on the listing let me quickly have a look
it in fact does not specify it’s a mobile 360. and I feel like them stapling a laptop die to
a desktop PCB is an important thing to clarify but that explains the six gigs of video memory
and it’s potentially priced appropriately that’s if and how this cobbled together Abomination works
either way it is a fascinating specimen let’s have a closer look physically at the card so we have
the plastic shroud with two fans and a reasonable looking heatsink you know we’ve got two fat heat
pipes over there the actual thin array isn’t just like a block of aluminum that they cut grooves
into we’ve also got some supplemental power in terms of rear i o we have two HDMI and two
display ports which means it’s probably not a GTS 450. around the back the crudely human
plastic back plate does nicely emphasize the mongrel pedigree of this card wow I just felt
like I dropped a pretentious wine description I don’t know where that came from anyway let’s
drop this mod in the system and see if it works test system wise I’m using the PC that I built in this ridiculously overpriced pink Asus
anime case from the previous video down yes it works very good we’ve got a signal
out and everything but my excitement was short-lived because I just couldn’t get drivers
installed on the thing oh this driver could not find compatible Graphics Hardware I tried
various combinations of ddu wiping restarting and different driver versions but the drivers
refused to associate with the riffraff even gpu-z which normally is like a scam Graphics
called sniffer dog seemed pretty confused by this graphics card okay so this is getting a bit
concerning I can’t actually install drivers on it so let me drop this AliExpress RTX 3060 in a
different system and see if that changes anything oh this is a completely different system
and I’m still getting the same error message really irritating it it means it has to be
the graphics card so I guess I’m just gonna take it apart and have a closer look at it
oh crap none of my screwdrivers reach the screws down there actually let me try my wish
build Ram screwdrivers that actually works I am now very glad that I kept those little
screwdrivers I guess before we destroy the sticker we should probably scan the QR code how
is this helpful at all I don’t understand what I don’t even have to wipe the thermal
paste down I can see that that’s a ga 106 die although let’s not be too
hasty let’s quickly mix that is a GN 20 E3 A1 dial what the hell is that wait Google
just confirmed it is a laptop RTX 3060. why won’t drivers install on it that’s really weird at this
point on a whim I reached out to the AliExpress seller telling them that I couldn’t install
drivers on their graphics card to which they responded this driver with a link to a Google Docs
drive that had some very official looking drivers in them okay this all feels a little bit like I’m
about to get mauled by a tiger but that’s fine now in the text file it’s telling me to install the
one driver first and then have it not do anything and then install the second driver and then it
should work so in the spirit of those scientists that licked plutonium to see what would happen
let’s give this a try and see what happens this just makes my Spidey Sense tingle a little bit
I don’t know man again a very comforting warning okay that did nothing which means
it’s time for driver number two hey it’s worked we now have drivers and probably
several Trojan on this system now it’s not the newest driver which does make me want to see
if we can now install real drivers on it and let me give that a try GeForce experience
works that’s a good Next Step no I still can’t install official drivers on here I I don’t
know about you but I feel like having to rely on Ghetto rigged AliExpress virus drivers is
a bit of a deal breaker but maybe that’s just me anyway let’s finally do some gaming on
this chlamydia stricken little graphics card okay so after a bit of a traumatic start we
finally launched GTA 5 on this mobile RTX 3060 and with 1080p High we are very much in
heavy stutter territory in terms of frame rate so I’m actually going to put the graphics a bit
higher okay there we go that’s better so now we’re running a 1080p high and we are no longer quite
in that zone where stutters happen and as I say that it starts stuttering look at that power
drone the graphics card is just using about 80 watts of power and we’re still getting many
frames per second that’s some crazy efficiency right there you can see the core frequency is
also pretty high often hitting 1900 megahertz that is very impressive for such a troubled little
graphics card with that let’s try some more games now again with Battlefield 5 we’re getting great
performance with very low power drill this is a 1080p High settings and yeah we are well over 120
frames per second we don’t have particularly high temperatures on the GPU again because it’s not
drawing that much power like I don’t I don’t think I’ve seen it go over 80 Watts Watts actually it
just makes it such a shame that the graphics card is so dodgy because it’s really good now before
I compare it to a full fat desktop RTX 3060 let’s just try a couple more games someone commented
asking for fortnite recently so there you go cyberpunk with 1080p High settings is also
running very well we’re getting over 60 frames per second and it’s nice and smooth good
gaming experience and with that deep Insight I think it’s finally time to compare it to a
desktop RTX 3060 to see just how efficient it really is and how many frames per second
we lose for that reduction in power draw okay with Battlefield 5 it’s definitely running a
bit better before we were jumping between 150 and 140 frames per second whoa whereas now it’s like
150 to 170 so a little bit better performance but look at that power draw up from a peak of about 80
Watts that is almost double for not that much more performance that’s some crazy efficiency on that
mobile RTX 3060. yeah the same goes for cyberpunk there is a bit more performance but at the cost
of almost double the power draw but then there’s the other difference of the desktop card having 12
gigs of video memory as opposed to 6 gigs and with a game like cyberpunk you can see it just creeps
over that six gigs of memory utilization at 1080P and it would use more at higher resolutions so the
full RTX 3060 is probably a bit more future proof and a lot less dodgy with that let’s directly
compare them with some more precise benchmarks foreign interesting results there was some definite
anomalies like shadow of the Tomb Raider and doom Eternal but when I wanted to retest the
AliExpress card Windows just refused to install the drivers again it kept giving
me like Trojan warnings and stuff and with that what did we learn in today’s video well a
playgrad could exhibit world-class efficiency and be very competitively priced but it being
a playground is still kind of the main thing which brings me to the end of the video if you
want to check out that pink Asus anime case video a suggestion will pop up in a second and
until the next video thank you for watching bye foreign
