First reviews of the AMD Radeon RX 590 indicate that the graphics improves only 12% in performance at the cost of a totally excessive power consumption.
The reviews of the AMD Radeon RX 590 reveal what seemed quite evident, the GCN architecture used in the company's graphics is more than obsolete and no matter how much the lithography is lowered, it does not matter, the improvement is minimal and the consumption a real nonsense. These RX 590s are based on Polaris 30 which is nothing more than a rehash of Polaris 20 which in turn is a rehash of Polaris 10. Going from the 14nm of the RX 480 and RX 580 to the 12nm of the RX 590 seems to have minimal effect.
The performance of the AMD RX 590 improves over the RX 580 at the cost of beastly power consumption.
It seems that the company has used the 12nm FinFET lithography in the RX 590 to stretch more Polaris, which really with the RX 580 did not give more of itself. To improve performance with respect to Polaris 20, the frequencies have been increased, going from 1340MHz of the RX 580 to 1580MHz of this new Polaris 30; not forgetting the 1266MHz of the RX 480.
Improving the frequencies, despite the reduction in the size of the transistor in this new lithography means that the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has a maximum consumption of 249W and the average consumption in gaming is approximately 232W. The data in context is better understood and is that the RX Vega 56 has a maximum consumption of 237W and an average consumption in gaming of 229W. The NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB in stock reaches 149W on time and is usually kept at 133W in gaming.
If we compare the performance the Vega 56 is 27% more powerful in 1080p, 30% more powerful in 1440p and 34% more powerful in 4K. It is true that the Vega 56 is much more expensive than the RX 590 that has just been launched on the market. If we compare the performance with the GTX 1060 6GB, this new graphics from AMD is 10% more powerful in 1080p, about 11% more powerful in 1440p and up to 13% more powerful in 4K. An average of 12% more overall performance is not justifiable, consuming almost twice as much.
Source: TPU
