![]() For now, let's do a walk-around of the card I have. Surveying the competing Radeon RX 590 models, the two-fan cooler on the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy is a common approach, although the pricey $309 Asus Strix RX 590 8G Gaming (Opens in a new window) uses a larger three-fan solution. The standard Radeon RX 590 core clock must have been conservative indeed, as all competing cards I found were nearly 100MHz higher, at the minimum. In fact, the XFX card had the highest core clock that I saw among Radeon RX 590 models available as of this writing. The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy ships at 1,580MHz, a significant bump over the 1,469MHz clock AMD lists as the baseline for the RX 590. The core clock varied among Radeon RX 590 models I saw from vendors such as Asus and PowerColor. (Nvidia's GeForce RTX 20 series is a recent example.) That's a good thing new graphics cards are often backordered for months after debut. The Radeon RX 590 Fatboy and most other Radeon RX 590 graphics cards I found were in stock at online e-tailers like Newegg as I typed this review. ![]() The Fatboy is the only Radeon RX 590 model that XFX offers. Prices for Radeon RX 590 models range from $259 to $309, with this XFX card, the Radeon RX 590 Fatboy, sitting pretty at AMD's recommended price of $279. AMD doesn't produce a Radeon RX 590 board of its own, so there's no "baseline" card to reference for comparisons. That includes (but isn't limited to) the cooling solution, the circuit-board design, the power delivery, and aesthetics. XFX is an AMD board partner the company takes AMD's reference GPUs and designs its own graphics cards around them. This kind of promo is a potential deal-maker in the Radeon RX 590's price-conscious market segment. It's smart marketing and a simple reminder that, when budgeting for a new gaming rig or graphics card, you also need to budget for, well, games. As I type this, AMD is sweetening the deal with a promo that gets you three free games with a Radeon RX 590 purchase, and they're not no-name titles: Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Resident Evil 2, and Devil May Cry 5 are all AAA-level. There's no camouflaging that the Radeon RX 590's selling point is its price. (The Radeon RX 480 was rated for just 150 watts.)īut AMD's focus with the Radeon RX 590 isn't on performance per watt: It's on performance per dollar. These diminishing returns are a tell-tale indicator that AMD is stretching the limits of the Polaris GPU architecture. The Radeon RX 580 was rated for about 18 percent less power (185 watts), although its core clock was only about 14 percent lower. Its board power rating is a whopping 225 watts, the very same carried by the gobs-faster Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition. I'll detail later in this review how much overhead remains in the Radeon RX 590 for overclocking.ĭespite its more advanced fabrication, the Radeon RX 590's boosted core clock comes at a price. That's a 12 percent increase over the 1,257MHz clock on the Radeon RX 580, and a 31 percent increase over the 1,120MHz clock of the Radeon RX 480. The Radeon RX 590 has a core clock that is untouchable by Radeon RX 580 standards: 1,469MHz. The newer process lets AMD eke out even more performance from the Polaris architecture. ![]() It's arguably a tweaked version of the 14nm process that was used for the Radeon RX 480 and the Radeon RX 580, but let technicalities be technicalities. What makes it slightly more radical than the RX 480-to-RX 580 transition is its move to a 12nm FinFET fabrication process. ![]() The Radeon RX 590 has the same overall specifications as the Radeon RX 580 (and, consequently, the Radeon RX 480). (Opens in a new window) Read Our PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 570 Review How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. ![]()
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