Tuesday, November 13th 2018
HIS Radeon RX 590 IceQ X² Detailed
With a little Javascript trickery, Redditor "BadReIigion" succeeded in making the company website of AMD partner HIS to spit out details of its upcoming Radeon RX 590 IceQ X² graphics card (model number: HIS-590R8LCBR). Pictured below is the RX 580 IceQ X², but we expect the RX 590-based product to be mostly similar, with cosmetic changes such as a different cooler shroud or back-plate design. The website confirms some details like the ASIC being "Polaris 30 XT," a rendition of the 2,304-SP "Polaris 20" die on the 12 nm FinFET node, and that the card features 8 GB of GDDR5 memory. Some of the other details, such as the engine clock being mentioned as "2000 MHz" is unlikely.
The consensus emerging on engine clock boost frequencies from RX 590 leaks so far, put RX 590 custom-design, factory-overclocked cards to tick around 1500-1550 MHz, a 100-200 MHz improvement over the RX 580. Some board vendors such as Sapphire are even overclocking the memory by about 5%. "Polaris 30" is likely pin-compatible with "Polaris 20," because most board vendors are reusing their RX 580 PCBs, some of which are even carried over from the RX 480. For the HIS RX 590 IceQ X² this means drawing power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.
Source:
BadReIigion (Reddit)
The consensus emerging on engine clock boost frequencies from RX 590 leaks so far, put RX 590 custom-design, factory-overclocked cards to tick around 1500-1550 MHz, a 100-200 MHz improvement over the RX 580. Some board vendors such as Sapphire are even overclocking the memory by about 5%. "Polaris 30" is likely pin-compatible with "Polaris 20," because most board vendors are reusing their RX 580 PCBs, some of which are even carried over from the RX 480. For the HIS RX 590 IceQ X² this means drawing power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.
23 Comments on HIS Radeon RX 590 IceQ X² Detailed
They were really dominant in the HD2000-HD6000 era, and had some very bold designs.
Now, I haven't seen a HIS card for sale in Norway in quite a few years. Wonder what happened.
At 1500Mhz 590 would be +10% GPU clock.
And according to leaked benches, is about 10% faster:
www.techpowerup.com/249060/amd-radeon-rx-590-built-on-12nm-finfet-process-benchmarked-in-final-fantasy-xv
So, calling this 585 would mislead a bit.
But please, AMD, for the love of all that's good in this world, price this thing sensibly. As in, the same MSRP as the 480/580 or ideally lower. After all, this isn't brand-new cutting-edge tech, and there's no reason to charge a premium for it just 'cause the current market is bananas. $180 MSRP, with fancy-cooler partner/OC cards at $200? It'd sell like hotcakes.
I think after the skt 939 'enthusiast' era when overclocking was done by tweaking FSBs. HiS like a lot of other companies slowly pulled out of the market. The card pictured here is a Radeon 4670. So many companies left the enthusiast market. a lot of them just slipped away overnight. Some were bought out while some others went bankrupt or faced financial difficulties before being bought out and the brand never saw the light of day again. Didnt matter if you were a GPU or mobo manufacturer. everyone had more or less the same fate unless you were the real strong ones like Asus, Gigabyte and MSI etc etc not all survived the test of time.
HiS probably pulled back to focus on the Asian market.
Then again, owning that thing set me down the path of figuring out that quiet computers are nicer to be around. Can't say I've regretted that since.
(also, is that Melania Trump in medieval armor on that cooler?)Unfortunately you're right that this is not unlikely, but it's still atrocious. $249 would be reasonable or even a bargain if this launched alongside the 580. 10% more performance for 10% more money? Sure, no problem. 10% more money for 10% more performance more than a year later? What? Piss off.
At this rate, I'll be sticking with my Fury X until something like 2025.I've been living in a universe where logic is supposed to apply to the world. Sadly, this universe seems to be increasingly imaginary on far too many fronts.
I think i did get a similar cooler for my dad's 9800 Ultimate card that he got given for free which had that turquoise blue'ish kind of plastic to it.
I have an X850XT PE from MSI with that wonderfull Silencer too, some day i must buy an Athlon 64 skt. 939 to pair it with :)
Don't know why manufacturers don't make that type of cooling any more, especially for <150W TDP cards.It's in Romanian but the preorder is ~ 290 Euros.
www.pcgarage.ro/placi-video/xfx/radeon-rx-590-fatboy-oc-plus-8gb-gddr5-256-bit/
Around that time in my life i used to come home with $2000 per month. worked 60-70hr weeks and never had time to spend my money so that £200-300 went like water. I was mad because of the price but I was still out there holding the line and representing the AGP platform while the industry had transitioned to PCI-Ex.
I think the card cost as much as an X1900GT which is why i was so mad about it. I think there were a limited number of 850XTPE cards ever made so hence the price but back then i was too much of a noob to understand.
That really was a fun time... pencil mods, Arctic Silver 5, 200 hour break in period, using 8 different programs to mod this or that or to get a specific sensor reading. Just loved seeing my hard work and research pay off.
Honestly, not sure how to feel about progress... so many "experts" today that know how to watch Mr. Nexus mumble his way through an explanation. Then they click a button and boom, 7.5% more performance and an epeen the size of a baseball bat.
I wonder if they sell pre-built LEGO, all the results without the effort. (Dang I sound bitter).
I like the color of this 580.
A friend of mine had a pair of 2GB 6970 HIS center fan cards, they were impressive. Quiet, cool, ran forever.
I miss HIS. They made some genuinely fantastic AMD cards, their coolers were EVGA quality competitors.