so it's that time of the year again when everyone starts launching new products
to get those key holiday sales it's also been a pretty interesting season for the
GPU market as well with the new RTX series from Nvidia but it didn't go as
planned as it should have been in the first place did it
I mean we're months into the launch and there still isn't a game that supports
any of the features at the RTX series GPUs we're supposed to offer so that
sort of sets the stage for this video because as it stood AMD didn't really
have anything new from their Radeon graphics division and that causes an
issue especially at this time of the year so they had to dig deep into their
past and to come up with this the rx 590 so why don't we go ahead and talk about
the specs and benchmarks and all that kind of stuff right after this optimize
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XFX rx 590 fat boy that's right I just said fat boy and that's exactly what XFX
is calling this thing so keyboard warriors you're more than welcome to
grow as much as you want in the comments now the RX 590 isn't really new
because it uses the same four generation GCN polaris architecture found in the
RX 480 and RX 580 that's right AMD is once again using a design that was first
launched about two and a half years ago this thing has more lives than a cat the
only difference is that they're using a 12 nanometer manufacturing process
instead of the 40 nanometers used on the rx 580 it really is too bad that Vega
isn't being addressed with this new process and supposedly AMD has no plans
to change that right now so as you can see with the specs the updated
manufacturing process has allowed AMD to take the RX 580 increase its core
frequency and simply create the rx 590 as a pre overclocked version the claim
is that we should see a 10 to 15% framerate boost so not all that much
more than what a user overclocked are 580 can achieve so while the rx 580 is
meant to compete against in videos gtx 1060 6gb this new card is supposed
to perform a bit above that XFX has given this card a thirty five megahertz
overclock but that won't amount to any additional performance even with a
twelve nanometer core there's a huge jump in power consumption since the
polaris architecture wasn't designed to operate at such high clock speeds just
to give you an idea that 225 watts is 10 watts more than what nvidia rates there
RTX 2080 ad and that's pretty crazy of course pricing had to factor into
this - and that's where I think AMD may have a winner I mean we really didn't
need a pre overclocked rx 580 but at its price of $280 it should be pretty
competitive against Nvidia the GTX 1066 gabite goes for around $250 to $290 on
Amazon right now so that's right in line with the arts 590 by the way you can
find any of these cards I talked about in the links in the description down
below the problem might come with how the arcs 590 aligns with the current
state of RX 580 pricing you see Amd's board partners have been very aggressive
and you can actually find some examples like Emma size armor for $210 and power
colors red dragon for $220 honestly this might cause the arcs 590 to look like a
pretty poor value even before it launches but there's one more perk I
wanted to talk about when you purchase an RX 590 or a PC equipped with one
you'll also get three free upcoming games there's Devil May Cry 5 and the
division two that are due to launch in March of 2019
while Resident Evil 2 remake should be out in January all things considered
that's well over a hundred fifty dollars of free games but they're only valuable
to someone who actually wants them plus the offer is only good for a limited
time so we can't really take them into consideration for the rx 590'S
long term value okay so onto the XFX RX 590 Fat Boy yeah that's probably the
last time I'm going to call that name but let's take a closer look at this
card and see what it offers so this is one thick card that has two large fans
and is much more wider than we're used to basically due to the heat produce
by the overclocked Polaris Core XFX needed to supersize their hietzing
design and that means it also takes up two and a half inch slots and is just
over ten and a half inches long now to feed its hunger for power this rx 590 is
equipped with an 8 pin and a 6 pin power connector layout and you can actually
see how the heat sings huge heat pipes sneak around this area it's pretty
impressive but it also goes to show how AMD did everything they could to squeeze
performance out of their old architecture the backplane has a cool
design but it's mostly for show since it doesn't actively cool any components
here so that's it for the overview and now on to the benchmarks now in order to
keep things even we're gonna be comparing this RX590 I'm not gonna
say the other word but this card to the msi mech rx 580 the EVGA GTX 1060
superclocked and the EVGA gtx 1070 gaming so let's do this
so now that we've gone through the performance let's take a look at a few
other things first of all how much power the card sucked down and all I have to
say is that this is pretty concerning for the RX 590 it looks like AMD push
their Polaris course so far that it now requires almost as much juice as the
rtx 2080 I was prepared for this but wow guys these are some extremely high
numbers for a sub $300 GPU even though power consumption is high it looks like
XFX has been able to keep temperatures pretty much under control at 80 degrees
they are higher than what our MSI rx 580 MEK achieved but remember that core is
obviously pushing out a massive amount of heat
luckily the XFX rx 590 remained pretty quiet throughout our testing period but
it definitely wasn't the quietest GPU in these charts but remember at 47 decibels
it won't be annoying in the least and luckily it didn't exhibit any coil whine
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the description below so guys it's pretty obvious that the RX 590 is being
launched to capture those Christmas season sales and aim these struggling to
find ways to keep their current graphics card stay relevant but I was where did
the RX 580 and the RX 590 wouldn't be separate enough to make the refresher
line worth a while well it turns out that just from a raw performance
standpoint there wasn't much to worry about personally I think this new card
is perfectly suited for people who want a budget-friendly GPU that can kick butt
at 1080p while delivering great performance at 1440p the GTX 1066
gigabyte though it's really more comfortable gaming at 1080p and the 6
gigabyte frame buffer can be limiter above that the 590 is just way more
adaptable I really like how the RX 590 is positioned against the RX 580 since
its performance increases ranged from around 7% to 10% at 1440p while 1080p
more of a boost the only problem here is that AMD's facing the exact same issue
nvidia did when the rth series launched the older cards are so well priced the
newer ones don't look like a good value right now you can find an RX 580 for 210
to $220 and the 50 to $60 premium for the 590 just doesn't seem worth it
unless if you want those free games now according to AMD the RX 590 is the perfect
upgrade for four to five year old systems but there's also a little
problem with that story this thing is a hungry little guy the
XFX card we have sucks down more power than a gtx 1070 as a matter of fact it
needs about as much power as in RTX 2080 and that's pretty crazy that and the 6 + 8
pin power connector layout might force a PSU upgrade for older systems and
honestly guys I really like the rx 580 but AMD's obviously trying to push their
purlettes architecture a little bit more further than it was originally designed
to and that means the power consumption numbers are huge in comparison to frame
rates now if your system can handle it this might be an awesome upgrade but I
would also make sure to check the rx 580 prices before taking the plunge
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