Friday, December 28th 2018
Sapphire Outs Radeon RX 590 Nitro+ OC Sans "Special Edition"
Sapphire debuted its Radeon RX 590 series last month with the RX 590 Nitro+ Special Edition, which at the time was advertised as a limited-edition SKU. The company over Holiday weekend updated its product stack to introduce a new mass-production SKU, the RX 590 Nitro+ OC, minus "Special Edition" branding. There are only cosmetic changes between the two SKUs. Sapphire's favorite shade of blue on the Special Edition SKU makes way for matte-black on the cooler shroud, as do the black accents on the back-plate, instead of blue. The fan impellers are opaque matte black instead of frosty and translucent.
Thankfully, Sapphire hasn't changed the specs that matter - factory-overclock. The card still ships with 1560 MHz engine clocks (boost), and 8.40 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory, and a "quiet" second BIOS that dials down the clocks to 1545 MHz boost and 8.00 GHz memory. The underlying PCB is unchanged, too, drawing power from a combination of 8-pin and 6-pin PCIe power connectors, and conditioning it with a 6+1 phase VRM. Display outputs include two each of DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0, and a dual-link DVI-D. The company didn't reveal pricing, although we expect it to be marginally lower than the Special Edition SKU.
Thankfully, Sapphire hasn't changed the specs that matter - factory-overclock. The card still ships with 1560 MHz engine clocks (boost), and 8.40 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory, and a "quiet" second BIOS that dials down the clocks to 1545 MHz boost and 8.00 GHz memory. The underlying PCB is unchanged, too, drawing power from a combination of 8-pin and 6-pin PCIe power connectors, and conditioning it with a 6+1 phase VRM. Display outputs include two each of DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0, and a dual-link DVI-D. The company didn't reveal pricing, although we expect it to be marginally lower than the Special Edition SKU.
66 Comments on Sapphire Outs Radeon RX 590 Nitro+ OC Sans "Special Edition"
I think everyone knows the 590 isn't worth getting over a VEGA 56.
only think what is rising is power eat. and its record high!.. even tis 1st verions.
so that 'thing'...its skyhigh oc'd rx 580 gpu with smaller line tech build,thats all....should say 'biggest' thing are that bcoz it build smaller line tech its can oc'd even more than rx any other rx 500 series..
and thats all.
we can imagine when its oc's so much how terrible it is power eat.
its make alot more heat and noise and for that watts it have very low fps.
example wecan imagine IF example tx 1060 oc'd (if it can. i think no) so much that it eat same watts than rx 590...think its crushed all rx 500 series gpus!!
...so i mean what ever more you squeeze it hets even doubel it power eat. so efficiency going if possible even more terrible.
so we goes then next amd tactics.. amd push price even lower IF possible, near limit that amd get negative result.
but point is any amd rx 500 series are really lausy gpus,and only thing what they can do (amd) is really price.. but sure you get lausy slow gpu lower price.
ok,its amd way to build gpus...but i say thouse kind gpu shpuld these days banned...
terrible efficiency = slow for games
we live soon year 2019..and all know this year and future target. more fps with less power,amd not care it sh1t.
nvidia doing that excellent,and still it have overkill speed gpus,sure they cost more, but quality and responsibility for air and earth cleanlines and purity ..cost little more.
rx 590 eat morepower than nvidia gtx 2080 ti!!!!!!!
i say, it should banned! but amd not care.
im sure that 2020 when intel coming gpu faily,they release good product with good efficiency,so i say
2020 we seen two,only two serious gpu maker, nvidia and intel.
so lets wait nvidia rtx 3000 series, intel 1st gpu series...and why not amd gpu IF tehy make gpu example like rx 590 what is twcie at taht speed,but eat 50% less power.
amd never cant do that.
amd cant and not release anyhting 'good anymore..its seen 3-4 years...they dont have nothing except hypeting and commercial junks,all engineer leaders left amds. bcoz that.
amd gpus are just loosers choice
That goes for a 1080 too, but since that one gets temp limited at 81 C, it will conserve energy more readily and never get to the usage of a Polaris card. GPU Boost 3.0 is a lot more advanced. Realistically you're looking at 210W for any ambient air cooled 1080 simply because they run into thermal constraints if they push that all the time. But they do have 40-50% more performance than Polaris at that usage.
That said, multi-monitor idle power consumption is something AMD really needs to work on. What W1zzard reported in the review is what I see (~40w).
Its so easy to dodge those bullets. Don't go there please. The topic was peak power consumption and we both responded. How is it important? It influences a purchase decision for many, me included.
What problem? You can look at RTG/AMDs position for discrete GPUs at this point and I think no further text is required.
And what behaviour? Yours, in the very post above mine. Its like mentioning excessive power consumption and poor perf/watt is forbidden, which confirms it exists.