Friday, October 19th 2018
ASUS Prepares GPP-Ridden Radeon RX 590 ROG STRIX Graphics Card for Launch
Videocardz, through their industry sources, say they've confirmed that ASUS is working on their own Radeon RX 590 ROG STRIX graphics card. The naming isn't a typo: the GPP-fueled AREZ moniker has apparently gone off the window for ASUS by now, and the RX 590 should be marketed under its (again) brand-agnostic ROG lineup. The product code (ASUS Radeon RX 590 ROG STRIX GAMING (ROG-STRIX-RX590-8G-GAMING) indicates the usage of 8 GB of graphics memory just like the RX 580, and we all expect this to be of the GDDR5 kind with no further refinements. It's all in the die, as they (could) say.
Source:
Videocardz
25 Comments on ASUS Prepares GPP-Ridden Radeon RX 590 ROG STRIX Graphics Card for Launch
So the new 580 is 590, old 580 is still the 580, and the new 570 is also now 580. I rather them do this because the new 570 has the same performance of the outgoing 580. It protects those who don't know better and default to "higher number must mean it's better" from buying old 580's think they're better than the new 570s. Honestly the just should have released the new cards as the 575/585 or 570R/580R and avoided this whole mess.
RTG has become a sh*it show for the past couple years. Incompetent in technology and marketing. Mediocrcy is not rewarded in a capitalist market. They better get their sh*it together, fast.
And honestly this could be good, as all Polaris cards, if the price is right. Vega was decent too but way, way too expensive.
From AMD, is R9 390 the first Strix series high-end card? It seems that it's Strix Gaming already.
ALL HAIL THE MIDRANGE KING...
In other news... AMDs 590 seems to have targeted solely as midrange in price and performance.