PowerColor Red Devil RX 590 Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 15th November 2018 | Source: PowerColor | Price: |
Introduction
Such has been the efforts AMD have put into their Ryzen CPUs - with extraordinary results - the GPU side of their business has been slightly left behind. Development costs are always insane and it would be asking too much of a company to completely revise both elements of their companies portfolio at the same time.
However, the RX 580 was a very attractive mid-range card and a little bit of an upgrade is always welcome. The RX 590, here in PowerColor Red Devil guise, is based upon the same 4th Generation of the GCN Architecture, but with some of the always popular power creep in the form of faster clock speeds and a reduced manufacturing process allowing you to pump yet more Watts to the GPU.
Despite the high end of gaming being all about producing 4K splendour, the reality is that most people still game at the hugely popular 1080P resolution, the target audience for the RX 590. Does it improve upon the RX 580 enough to tempt your wallet?
Technical Specifications
As you can see, the RX 590 is largely a faster version of the RX 580, with the reduction in process from the 14nm of the old RX 580 to the smaller 12nm of the RX 590 enabling higher clock speeds and more power to be fed to the card, hopefully giving it a boost in performance when compared to the current Radeon 5 series range.
| Radeon RX 590 | Radeon RX 580 | |
| GCN Architecture | 4th Generation | 4th Generation |
| Manufacturing Process | 12nm FinFET | 14nm FinFET |
| Die Size | 232 mm2 | 232 mm2 |
| Compute Units | 36 | 36 |
| Stream Processors | 2304 | 2304 |
| Clock Speed (Boost/Base) | 1545 MHz/1469 MHz | 1340 MHz/1257 MHz |
| Compute Performance | 7.1 TFLOPS | 6.17 TFLOPS |
| Texture Units | 144 | 144 |
| Texture Fill Rate | 222.4 GT/s | 190 GT/s |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| Pixel Fill Rate | 49.5 GP/s | 42.9 GP/s |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Bandwidth | 256 GB/s | 256 GB/s |
| Memory Interface | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Board Power | 225W | 185W |
| Freesync Support | Yes | Yes |
| DirectX 12 Support | Yes | Yes |
| Vulkan Support | Yes | Yes |
| Display Port Version | 1.3 HBR/1.4 HDR | 1.3 HBR/1.4 HDR |
Most Recent Comments
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Originally Posted by AlienALX
I really like it, but it's a little too expensive. For £299 atm you can get a really nice looking '56.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapph...gx-38f-sp.html Which kinda makes the £269 a bit too much. Like, £30 or so too much. Edit, my manners. Thanks for the review Tom. It's nice and thorough, with plenty of pics and good info  |
Agreed, a 56 would be better but once you get to a 56 you can they argue about a 1070 and its never ending. 56's also require more power and better cooling blah blah blah
For the money this is a cracking 1080p card and would respond well to a freesync monitor too. Out of the two Ive tested this is by far the better option of the two.Quote
But yeah agreed, still a great little card. Must also bear in mind this is like top end (well, other than the Strix LOL edition that is no doubt inbound lol).Quote
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Originally Posted by AlienALX
£30 lower for me. It'll happen too I reckon
But yeah agreed, still a great little card. Must also bear in mind this is like top end (well, other than the Strix LOL edition that is no doubt inbound lol). |
That will probably cost more than that 56 unless they uuse the older style coolerQuote
Hopefully they will use the older cheaper cooler though, kinda like the one on the GTX 970 that actually wasn't that expensive at all.Quote
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Which kinda makes the £269 a bit too much. Like, £30 or so too much.
Edit, my manners. Thanks for the review Tom. It's nice and thorough, with plenty of pics and good info