11-15-2018, 09:38 PM
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd...07-11.html
https://techreport.com/review/34260/amd-...reviewed/7
Quote:What we can see, however, are the benchmark results, power consumption measurements, value comparison, and efficiency calculation. Radeon RX 590 may benefit from a tuned process, but it’s still being flogged for a few percentage points of additional performance and sold at a higher price. It’s sucking down GeForce RTX 2080 power to generate frame rates between GeForce GTX 1060 and 1070. As a result, the Radeon RX 580 and 590 both look bad when we look at performance per watt.
Sure, $280 (£250) for Radeon RX 590 remains a relative bargain to shell-shocked gamers still reeling from the cryptocurrency bonanza that saw mainstream graphics cards selling for two or three times their original worth. In that context, you’re basically getting a great (guaranteed) overclock at a 25 or 30 percent premium over Radeon RX 580 8GB. But we’d just as soon save some money and buy the cheaper Polaris card for high-detail gaming at 1920 x 1080. After all, RX 580s are readily available for less than the price point AMD launched them at back in 2017.
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And so, we’re left with Radeon RX 590 instead. It’s faster than GeForce GTX 1060 6GB across our suite at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440, which seems to have been AMD’s goal. However, when we comb over graphics card prices and compare their performance, the real winner today is Radeon RX 580 8GB. Ample performance for cranking up quality at 1920x1080 and post-crypto-crazy pricing combine for some of the best deals we’ve seen on mainstream gaming hardware in 2018.
https://techreport.com/review/34260/amd-...reviewed/7
Quote:Our value scatters boil down the story of the RX 590 quite well. On the back of its clock-speed boost alone, the RX 590 capably steps into the wide gap left by the RX 580 8 GB and the GTX 1060 6 GB in today's midrange graphics-card market. Perhaps more critically, the RX 590 is the first midrange card we've reviewed that clears the 60-FPS mark for 99th-percentile FPS per dollar. For 1920x1080 gaming at high or ultra settings, the RX 590 proves both swift and smooth. Can't ask for much more than that.
For the first time in a long time for a Radeon launch, the move to GlobalFoundries' 12LP process has apparently yielded enough performance headroom that AMD's engineers didn't feel the need to hurl this card over the shoulder of the voltage-and-frequency-scaling curve (or at least not any more so than it already was). With our XFX RX 590 on our test bench, I observed less than 20 watts' extra draw on our power meter versus a hopped-up RX 580 8 GB. AMD is still nowhere close to matching Nvidia for performance per watt, but it's nice to know that the RX 590 shouldn't be much more demanding of power supplies or custom coolers to deliver its extra performance.
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All that said, discounts don't last forever, and old stock of high-end graphics cards may not, either. If you're shopping for a graphics card in the under-$300 range and were already considering spending $250 or $260 on a GTX 1060 6 GB or Radeon RX 580, I would spend the extra $20 or $30 on an RX 590 without hesitation. It shouldn't come as a shock that this card comes TR Recommended.