Higher power consumption than comparable Nvidia chips
Limited overclocking potential
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Today we're checking out the new-ish Radeon RX 590 and on hand for testing we have the XFX Radeon RX 590 'Fatboy'. This is technically a new GPU, but kind of not new at the same time. What we have here is Polaris 20 XT on the 12nm FinFET process, and...
Having already analysed the Sapphire RX 590 Nitro+ SE for launch day, today we have been assessing the XFX RX 590 Fatboy.The thing that strikes me most is just how basic a card this is. Performance aside, you really don't get any bells or whistles – it...
The Radeon RX 590 is more of the same that we have been testing well over two years now. Yes, performance went up a notch, yes the card still works very decently in Full HD and Quad HD resolutions and yes it tweaks nicely. The technology, however, is...
The new Radeon RX 590 beats Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 6GB across our benchmark suite at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440. However, AMD took a truncheon to the card's power limit in order to motivate its Polaris GPU. We think you're better off scooping up...
AMD has had a fairly sizable hole in its graphics card line-up for quite some time now. Disregarding the craziness crypto-miners caused for a while there, pricing on the Radeon RX 580 has hovered around the $200 mark, whereas most of the Radeon RX Vega...
There's a lot of choice on the market for GPUs right now, so it's not as simple as “buy X with $Y and buy Z with $A.” We'll try our best.Let's start with XFX's part in this review The cooler isn't good for its size or its price. XFX runs warm in the...
Successful upgrade. AMD will not be offering us an entirely new GPU series this year. Instead, AMD has launched another Polaris Refresh GPU: the RX 590, produced in a 12-nm process. This enables significantly higher clock rates compared to the RX 580...
After spending a couple weeks using the AMD Radeon RX 590 on our gaming test platform we are happy to report that all did really well at 1080P and 1440P gaming. The three models that we looked at today are very similar in design and none really stood...
How can improvements to the GPU manufacturing process make graphics cards better? There's no one solution, and today's launch of the $280 Radeon RX 590 shows that Nvidia and AMD took two wildly divergent paths in the shift to the 12nm process.Nvidia's...
AMD's refresh of its Polaris architecture is now a known commodity. Out the door, it delivers excellent performance for the price point of $279. This price point slots it in the same position as the GTX 1060 and RX 580 that it beats in every gaming...
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