PowerColor RX 590 revealed

[Fasauceome]

Source: Tom's hardware

 

PowerColor has revealed their RX 590 after a series of leaks, reaffirming my belief that tech companies don't even care about hiding their new products anymore (I mean come on, how many leaks are even inaccurate these days).

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Today, PowerColor became the first graphics card manufacturer to officially and publicly launch its custom-made Radeon RX 590 graphics card. The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 is based on AMD's Polaris 30 graphics processor, which is produced under the 12nm FinFET node.

Not on 7nm, which is a little disappointing, but the results are what's important.

Pricing is still unconfirmed:

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PowerColor didn't reveal the pricing for the Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5. However, the Radeon RX 590 is expected to launch November 15, so we won't have to wait long to find out

But we have specs

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The Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 complies to the previously leaked specifications for the Radeon RX 590. It sports 2,304 stream processors and 8GB of GDDR5 memory clocking in at 8,000MHz on a 256-bit memory bus. PowerColor's iteration features a boost clock up to 1,576MHz, equivalent to a 17 percent clock speed increase over a stock Radeon RX 580. 

Which leads me to asking what exactly is the "590?" Same amount of stream processors, same ram clocks, same memory bus, just an insanely thicc heat sink and faster clocks. What is the point?

 

Edit: I just remembered how AMD released a 580 2048 which was just an RX 570 with the 580 name, and they released a 580X and 570X for mobile only, so it just feels like they're overhyping their own products at this point

[Princess Luna]

Why would any one hide an overclock refresh gpu?

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Why would any one hide an overclock refresh gpu?

I honestly expected it to be an actual new graphics card, the name 590 implies that

[S w a t s o n]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why would any one hide an overclock refresh gpu?

 

Just now, fasauceome said:

I honestly expected it to be an actual new graphics card, the name 590 implies that

Technically it's more different to the 580 than the 580 to the 480 but it sucks yes

[Fasauceome]

Just now, S w a t s o n said:

 

Technically it's more different to the 580 than the 580 to the 480 but it sucks yes

I had a feeling the 12nm bump would help more than just a 17% clock increase.

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, fasauceome said:

I had a feeling the 12nm bump would help more than just a 17% clock increase.

You only had to look at zen to zen+. 15-20% was what I expected. 

[S w a t s o n]

2 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

I had a feeling the 12nm bump would help more than just a 17% clock increase.

 they seem to overclock a fair amount more too, it's gonna be polaris refined and slightly more power efficient but not really because the clocks are higher

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

You only had to look at zen to zen+. 15-20% was what I expected. 

The least they could have done was throw some more stream processors on there

[GOTSpectrum]

3 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

The least they could have done was throw some more stream processors on there

IMO if they were going to give it more FPUs then it would have been the 600 series. Tbh thats what I would have done, add a block of CUs to each tier of cards and release a 600 series for the same cost as the original. Although this is what I would have done, it's not what I expected to happen. 

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Ben Quigley said:

IMO if they were going to give it more FPUs then it would have been the 600 series. Tbh thats what I would have done, add a block of CUs to each tier of cards and release a 600 series for the same cost as the original. Although this is what I would have done, it's not what I expected to happen. 

Their 600 series will be on 7nm, same as Vega.

[GOTSpectrum]

3 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Their 600 series will be on 7nm, same as Vega.

I am aware of the current roadmap... I wasn't saying that was what is going to happen, I said it's what I would have done... 

[sharfaraz_ifaz]

Where's your source?

[Fasauceome]

Just now, sharfaraz_ifaz said:

Where's your source?

Ah crap thanks

[cj09beira]

8 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

IMO if they were going to give it more FPUs then it would have been the 600 series. Tbh thats what I would have done, add a block of CUs to each tier of cards and release a 600 series for the same cost as the original. Although this is what I would have done, it's not what I expected to happen. 

you would not, because you would know that 1 amd doesn't have the money, 2 its a bad time to release a whole new card on 12nm considering 7nm being so close.

 

20 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

I had a feeling the 12nm bump would help more than just a 17% clock increase.

considering zen went from a max of 4 ghz to 4.3 which is just 7.5% (a bit higher on the low end(less cores used)), 17% is quite impressive

19 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

You only had to look at zen to zen+. 15-20% was what I expected. 

you were setting yourself for disappointment by comparing a product with architecture changes to one without

my expectations were more in the 10% range.

[Taf the Ghost]

5 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

you would not, because you would know that 1 amd doesn't have the money, 2 its a bad time to release a whole new card on 12nm considering 7nm being so close.

 

considering zen went from a max of 4 ghz to 4.3 which is just 7.5% (a bit higher on the low end(less cores used)), 17% is quite impressive

you were setting yourself for disappointment by comparing a product with architecture changes to one without

my expectations were more in the 10% range.

We also need to keep in mind that AMD almost assuredly only produced this to meet some Semi-Custom orders in their portfolio. Given how well the Embedded Radeon seems to be selling, I'm curious if AMD might respin both the 560 and the 550 on "12nm" to push the power draw down a bit in that segment.

[grayperview]

This should just about match the Fury from 2015, good work AMD....NOT!

[Tristerin]

As long as they segregate out the good 590s from the bad 590s and charge me more for the good ones, I just hope they call it the 595.  lol

[iLostMyXbox21]

so what is the GTX equivalent?

 

still the 1060?

[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

As long as they segregate out the good 590s from the bad 590s and charge me more for the good ones, I just hope they call it the 595.  lol

RX 590X

[Fasauceome]

Just now, iLostMyXbox21 said:

so what is the GTX equivalent?

 

still the 1060?

Probably. The 1060 GDDR5X version will come out soon though.

[iLostMyXbox21]

5 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Probably. The 1060 GDDR5X version will come out soon though.

gtx 1060 gddr5x? whats next gtx1060tigddr5xr?

 

/s

[Tristerin]

6 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Probably. The 1060 GDDR5X version will come out soon though.

I think it will eek into 1070 territory, because if it doesn't none of this makes any sense unless its to try to make some money off the research/tech/experimenting on 12nm since we aren't going to be sitting there for long.  I hate the GPU market. 

 

EDIT - I only say this because a 580 8gb is > 1060 6gb imho (slightly if not directly in line) already. 

[S w a t s o n]

14 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

"12nm"

Listen at this point all the various node names (including Intel's) dont even mean an actual dimension anymore, I've stopped fighting the correct node naming wars

[Taf the Ghost]

9 minutes ago, iLostMyXbox21 said:

gtx 1060 gddr5x? whats next gtx1060tigddr5xr?

 

/s

Gets better. The GDDR5X models use the 1080's die.

[iLostMyXbox21]

Just now, Taf the Ghost said:

Gets better. The GDDR5X models use the 1080's die.

idk why but every time i hear about the 1080 i get sad

 

rip 1080

 

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