The flood of leaked AMD Radeon RX 590 graphics cards continues with the latest one being from XFX. Sporting a new naming scheme, the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy is very similar to the RX 580 GTS series. It features the same dual fan cooler used on the RX 580 GTS, which takes up roughly 2.5 slots. Even the backplate remains the same with no changes to speak of, meaning side by side you wouldn't be able to tell the difference unless you look at power delivery which is where the designs diverge. The RX 590 Fatboy utilizing an 8+6 pin design compared to the RX 580 GTS series and its single 8-pin design. In regards to display outputs that remains the same between the two with three DisplayPorts, one HDMI port, and one DVI-I port being standard.
When it comes to clock speeds the XFX RX 590 Fatboy OC+ at least according to Videocardz will come with a 1600 MHz boost clock. That is an increase of roughly 200 MHz over XFX's highest clocked RX 580. With such a high boost clock the additional 6-pin power connector is likely included for improved power delivery and depending on luck may allow for more overclocking headroom. Considering no vendor releases just one version of a graphics card it is likely that a few more variants will be available at launch. Sadly no pricing information is available as of yet.
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Why do I get the creeping feeling Navi isn't going to be an impressive improvement over Vega. While undoubtedly both are more future proof, I have to question why can't they finally move to off the GCN arch which needs more power to get the same performance as Nvidia. I think RTG needs to take the risk like the CPU division did with Ryzen and put all the cards at the table. Trouble is... they are losing talent and money over there.
Combination of both may require more robust cooling.
I have a GTX-980Ti that uses two 8-pin and one 6-pin power cord as well as what the PCI-E bus provides.
My two GTX-1080s have just one 8-pin.
As for this card, I think the cooling solution implies that the card will OC/Boost itself into the ranges of perfomance that will require a need for the oversized HS/Fan combo used.
Anyway, I never said they have someone outstanding there, but clearly some companies would want their engineers working on something better. So they jumped ship. And money-wise they are playing safe as far we can tell right? But when they look at their less than impressive revenue, I imagine they take it as a loss. RTG isn't failing, they're just being disappointment in the eyes of an average consumer. First impressions matter, only the naive will buy something on a company promise that their product will become better later on, it's almost like pre-ordering (and I am strict on pre-orders), they were too late. Vega and Polaris are pretty strong now, nobody should deny that, but people who wanted those GPUs a long time ago most likely are happily gaming on their Pascals, including me. It's a big shame.
As mentioned before mindshare is playing a big part on what is happening right now. Which, let's not forget, also affects game optimizations in a lot of cases.
I only know what is already fact and hearsay plus my own prediction of the future. You can point out where I am terribly wrong. Real talk, what I want to say is, they just haven't been doing enough since 2012, or maybe they just overhyped everything which made anything less competitive seem like it was worse than it really was. We need them to come out on top, for consumers. I want to wake up one morning and see something that is good on launch day and priced at what previous generation was at and have my mind blown. Reasonable expectation, I hope?
Instead we get 10-25% improvements while paying double. That's where we are heading at this rate. People are expecting the RX 590 to be twice as powerful as an RX 570 as the best possible scenario, otherwise no sane person (maybe someone with a 200-400 budget) will upgrade if the improvement is low from previous generations. The people that bought the high-end stuff can skip a gen' easy today unless they want that sweet, sweet 4K on 60FPS. In the end the majority vote with their wallets.
While this doesn't affect my life in any significant way, I have to see the bigger picture, this is setting the precedent for the industry. Well... at least re-brands aren't happening... for now, but they'll be back.
Different arch, different tactics , Amd one arch many market's. No game specific arch.
Nvidia multi arch tiered for gaming alone and seperate design for data.
Gcn does it all, Nvidia makes special bits to do special shit ie 64/ Or 32 bit cuda cores ,tensor.
And for power the Rtx cards suck plenty ,get off that high horse , Nvidia fanboi days riding power comments is Over.