AMD Radeon RX 590 Launches, Linux Support Presumably Okay

[theriddick]

Stuff is cheap in the USA, wish AMAZON US support aussie buyers, their AU site is pretty crap.

[xiando]

This card, for $280, is DOA. A RX 580 is $200 right now and this is barely 10% better. In some games is only 3% better.

Yes, good luck to AMD selling that card at that price. There's plenty of used RX 580 cards at $120 and novidya 1070s at $200 right now thanks to bankrupt and finished crypto miners trying to recover some of their losses by selling hardware. That new 590 would probably be fine if it replaced the 580 at the same price-point and came with bundled games. I guess they have to do something for the holiday season but a stiffer priced rebrandeon isn't going to cut it.

[L_A_G]

LOL @ the people complaining about this card being too expensive and comparing it to second hand former crypto "currency" mining cards being sold really cheap after the bottom fell out of the crypto market (again).

Seriously thou, this is one of those instances where it really wasn't necessary to go out and buy a review sample. All you needed was to OC a 580 to parity.

[mercurio]

AMD released the youtube video comparing it to Radeon RX480, link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRAPmwgMAbc

[MVinhas]

RX470/480/570/580/590 are almost the same. Now we just need the release of RX595, which will be a RX590 slightly overclocked, which is a RX580 slightly overclocked, (...)

[chithanh]

I guess the price has been decided by spreadsheet accountants. The game bundle does increase the value somewhat, but probably not enough to be sufficiently interesting over competing cards.

Linux Support Presumably Okay

the support should presumably be in good shape barring any situations like flakey vBIOS issues like we've seen at times, etc.

Maybe yes. Or maybe users will be plagued by similar issues like the Hawaii refresh (R9 390) had...

The AMD cards come with 3 free games. If you don't plan to play any of them, you should have a giveaway for them.

• The games are all Windows-only
• protondb does not contain any reports yet, but might be worthwhile to watch the respective pages
  • Devil May Cry 5 https://www.protondb.com/app/601150
  • The Division 2 https://www.protondb.com/app/881280
  • Resident Evil 2 https://www.protondb.com/app/883710
• You need Windows to redeem the voucher...

[audi.rs4]

LOL @ the people complaining about this card being too expensive and comparing it to second hand former crypto "currency" mining cards being sold really cheap after the bottom fell out of the crypto market (again).

Seriously thou, this is one of those instances where it really wasn't necessary to go out and buy a review sample. All you needed was to OC a 580 to parity.

Not true. The RX 590 is running at speeds not doable by most RX 580s. This is because the RX 590 is built on GFs 12nm (really just an improved 14nm) process, like the 2nd Gen Ryzen CPUs, which allow better clock speeds. It will likely at the higher clocks, consume less power than the RX 580. And, will OC higher than any RX 580 could.

You just have to weigh things. Do you pay ~$150 for a used GPU, potentially for crypto mining, or buy new. Thing is, used, still performs the same as new. And GPUs tend to last a long time, as long as they aren't heavily OC'd and constantly at extreme heats. Cryptominers tend not to do this because the power usage to hashing gains, are usually not worth it.

While $280 I feel is high, for its expected performance, I think by Christmas, it will be available for more around $250, which fits better in my opinion.

[mercurio]

• You need Windows to redeem the voucher...

Maybe not, when I bought Vega 64, It also came with 3 games, I got steam keys right away from

https://www.amdrewards.com

[Brisse]

It will likely at the higher clocks, consume less power than the RX 580. And, will OC higher than any RX 580 could.

It consumes more actually. The RX 580 had a total board power rating of 185W. The RX 590 raises it to 225W to achieve around +200MHz in base and boost clocks.

[moilami]

Hmm, maybe a time to upgrade from 7970, but on the other hand, would first need games which would not be playable with 7970