Early reviews of the radeon rx 590 show the disappointing advance of polaris at 12nm
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The first reviews of the Radeon RX 590 have finally come to light, the new graphics card released by AMD with a Polaris 30 silicon manufactured at 12nm FinFET, compared to the 14nm FinFET of the Polaris 20 cores of the Radeon RX 580. This It is the only improvement, so it was expected that the improvement in performance would be very little.
Radeon RX 590, Polaris receives some steroids but without miracles and with high energy consumption
The move to the manufacturing process at 12nm FinFET has enabled the Radeon RX 590 to offer slightly higher clock frequencies than the Radeon RX 580. Specifically, it has reached a speed of up to 1580 MHz in the Polaris core 30, compared to the 1340 MHz of the Radeon RX 580 and the 1266 MHz of the Radeon RX 480, cards that use the same Polaris chip, but manufactured at 14 nm FinFET. This increase in frequency has not come free, since the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8 GB reaches a maximum power consumption playing of 249W and an average consumption of 232W. To put us in perspective, the Radeon RX Vega 56 has a consumption in the same conditions of 237W and 229W, so we see how Polaris 30 consumes more than the Vega 56 chip.
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And what about performance? Well Vega 56 is 27% faster in 1080p, 30% in 1440p and 34% in 4K resolution. We have that the Radeon RX 590 consumes more than a Vega 56 architecture that has been criticized so much and performs considerably less, this is what AMD has come up with, launching refrains from Polaris. The difference with the Radeon RX 580 is around 10% in all three resolutions.
And how does it compare to the GeForce GTX 1060? Fortunately for AMD, the Radeon RX 590 is faster in all resolutions, with a 10% advantage in 1080p, 11% in 1440p and 13% in 4K, although this advantage comes at a high price to pay. The GeForce GTX 1060 has a maximum power consumption playing of 125W, almost just half that of its rival. 13% more performance consuming twice as much. Let everyone draw their own conclusions
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