General Discussions

[black_zion]

Remember that "no man's land" I talked about with the nVidia RTX series? Looks like the RX 590 falls squarely in it. It sucks down almost as much power as Vega 56, it gets over 80 degrees in games ON AN OPEN BENCH which kills the clocks due to throttling, and at 41db of noise it's quite loud. All this is on top of its $280 price tag, placing it up to $90 more expensive than the GTX 1060 while only averaging 7fps more than the 1060, and only 5fps higher than the RX 580, a card on the order of $100 CHEAPER.

Would you pay $100 more for 5 FPS? I doubt many people will.

https://www.www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-590,5907.html

[bearcat22]

Do you think their clocking them up so high to be competitive or is it a chipset problem? Kinda leaves their Partners in the same boat as with Vega. Not much they can do to improve on it except a better cooling system.

[black_zion]

It's a Raja Koduri problem. Under his watch Navi slipped so badly AMD has no other choice right now than to push inadequate architecture farther with more power and higher clocks, same thing they did with the FX-9000 series processors, in an attempt to appear competitive. The problem is that with AMD they're pulling a page from Intel's book and charging near $100 more for a very small performance increase just to fill a price gap between the RX 580 and Vega 56 which doesn't need to be filled.