Monday, February 4th 2019
MSI Announces, Releases Its RX 590 Armor Graphics Card
This should be old news by now, but it actually isn't: MSI is just now releasing their iteration of the AMD Radeon RX 590 SKU. Perhaps the company decided that the product wasn't too differentiated from the previous RX 480 and RX 580 graphics cards so as to justify all the resources they'd have to pour through to its development; or they wanted to first sell through their RX 580 inventory, and have now struck a good balance with stocks of the old and the new.
Whatever the reason, the fact is that MSI's first RX 590, launched in the Armor series - it isn't even in the gaming X department - has been released, three months later, in two variants: Armor and Armor OC (the latter is running a paltry 20 MHz higher than the non-OC version, so). The 12 nm, Polaris 30 XT graphics card draws power from an 8-pin connector, and video outputs include 2x DisplayPort, 2x HDMI, and 1x DVI. It's a dual-slot affair, like almost all MSI graphics cards, and all Armor ones. No word as of yet on availability nor pricing.
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Videocardz
Whatever the reason, the fact is that MSI's first RX 590, launched in the Armor series - it isn't even in the gaming X department - has been released, three months later, in two variants: Armor and Armor OC (the latter is running a paltry 20 MHz higher than the non-OC version, so). The 12 nm, Polaris 30 XT graphics card draws power from an 8-pin connector, and video outputs include 2x DisplayPort, 2x HDMI, and 1x DVI. It's a dual-slot affair, like almost all MSI graphics cards, and all Armor ones. No word as of yet on availability nor pricing.
10 Comments on MSI Announces, Releases Its RX 590 Armor Graphics Card
I just miss the old days when things were simple. There are just too many brands these days, is these Armor series like some value ones or what?
Personally, I'm trying to avoid MSI's products as much as I can until they've shown they can treat both sides with equal respect, rather than jumping ship whenever they see that it may be advantageous. They're like a child that always sides with whomever is "winning" at the moment; a bandwagoner. To be fair, certain decisions may have also been made for the best financial interest of the company, as a whole, but I certainly wouldn't buy this garbage RX 590; buy the Sapphire Nitro+ card instead.