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From Game Debate, includes 3 games DMC5 RE2 remake and Division 2!? https://www.game-debate.com/news/26...orrow-with-re2-dmc5-and-the-division-2-bundle

Amd's Benches look good, reviews should be coming soon.

AMD has revealed both the official specs plus the first benchmarks for its upcoming AMD Radeon RX 590 graphics card and the results are pleasantly surprising.

Specs-wise, the Radeon RX 590 is along the lines of what had been rumoured all along - extremely similar to the Radeon RX 580 that's already been on the market for over a year. The Radeon RX 590 features the same 2304 Stream Processor core count and the exact same 8GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 8Gb/s.

However, the big changed is a marked increase to the clock speeds, made possible thanks to the adoption of the 12nm FinFET fabrication process for the Polaris 30 GPU. The AMD Radeon RX 590 sports a 1469 MHz base clock speed right out of the box, along with a 1545 MHz boost clock. This compares to 1257 MHz and 1340 MHz base and boost clock respectively on the RX 580.

The end result is a graphics card with similar specifications for the two generations that came before it but with a tangible tangential jump in performance. In the case of raw numbers, it translates into a 15% increase in TFLOPs, moving from 6.2 TFLOP on RX 580 to 7.1 TFLOP on RX 590.

AMD published its own gaming benchmarks so all the usual caveats apply here. Intel has only recently shone a spotlight on inaccurate benchmarks so we'd fairly optimistic AMD won't risk the ire of its fans.

The test system slots in the RX 590 alongside an Intel Core i7-7700K CPU, 16GB DDR4 memory clocked at 3000 MHz and AMD Radeon driver 18.40.

As for the results, the AMD Radeon RX 590 scores consistently higher frame rates than the Radeon RX 580, with each gaming benchmarking showing 18-26% FPS gains. It's a decent improvement, both more than we were expecting and also topping Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in all-but-one benchmark test.

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Depending on how long that deal lasts, that's a damn good offer. Like, an "even though I'm happy with my video card (1060) I'd consider it" good offer
 

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That game bundle is insane, goddamn.

Are those benchmarks 1080p or 1440p?
 
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I'm going to get a new card and my choice was an RX 580 8GB, but THIS bundle is very tempting because I was going to be getting those games anyway. This makes the choice harder. Is the bundle coming to Europe too?
 

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This is launching at $280, and GTX 1060 6GB's offer comperable performance for $230-250 currently. On top of that, it's a streamlined RX 580 with better factory clocks, and you can get those for ~$200. A lot of the value in this deal is the extra games included honestly.
 

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That's one sexy bundle. 7.1tflops for $279US with 3 games I am looking forward that would cost me $60US each is really appealing to me :O
 

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hmm wondering if that means we'll be seeing cheap game keys floating around soon on the BST thread
 

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I have no idea how AMD can afford to subsidize the card with $180 worth of games.

Why are they even doing it now that mining on GPU is dead? I'm sure the people in that segment would rather get the card cheaper without games they might have no interest in. And they most definitely don't buy them at retail prices, it's probably around half the price for them.
 
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This is launching at $280, and GTX 1060 6GB's offer comperable performance for $230-250 currently. On top of that, it's a streamlined RX 580 with better factory clocks, and you can get those for ~$200. A lot of the value in this deal is the extra games included honestly.

Show me an RX 580 with a 15% factory OC.
 

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I'll hold onto my 480 for a while longer, but a copy of Division 2 at a discount will be nice.
 
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In half a year we'll be hitting three years with almost no increase in performance/price. The GPU market is so sad these days.

That isn't really true if you have money to burn on a 2080 ti. But a 15-20% improvement in this segment at close to the same cost isn't that terrible. 3 years isn't really a full gen. Could be better though yes.
 

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I saw this. I can hang on to my R9 390 a little bit longer, since I only game in 1080p, but damn that game bundle, I was planning on getting those anyway. Turns that $280 card into $100 for a performance increase.

I may hold off for other vendor's cards though. Is PowerCooler a good brand? Have any other vendors (MSI, Asus, XFX) announced a 590 card?
 

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Crazy that AMD's 7.1 tflops gets performance between Nvidia's 4.4 & 6.5 (like a Nvidia 5.x tflops) in real world applications.
 

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This is a bitchin' deal on a solid graphics card to tide people over until the RTX situation is a bit smoother in a year or two. If RAM prices weren't so fucking insane still, it'd be a fantastic time to build a budget PC.
 
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That's a damn good game bundle indeed. Also it's a bit sad but after seeing the prices of the 2080 ti's the price feels like a bargain in comparison.
 
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That isn't really true if you have money to burn on a 2080 ti. But a 15-20% improvement in this segment at close to the same cost isn't that terrible. 3 years isn't really a full gen. Could be better though yes.
I said performance/price in the sense of performance per dollar. The 2080ti is just another example of how it is true. It's 20% over 3 years for a slightly more expensive product. That's just sad. I don't ever remember that happening in the past.

It seems you're pretty new to the GPU market given your "3 years isn't really a full gen" statement. We used to get a "gen" every 1.5 year. We still got a new "gen" with Turing but Nvidia just charged more so there wasn't really any increase in performance/dollar.
 

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personally I find this pretty underwhelming , Polaris is from mid 2016, we are near the end of 2018 and they want $280 for this?

also that graph is probably with a 480 4GB (which had 7GHz ram compared to 8GHz from the 8GB)
 

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It's gotta be one of those 3 games right? Or one bundle for each game from different manufacturers?
 
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I saw this. I can hang on to my R9 390 a little bit longer, since I only game in 1080p, but damn that game bundle, I was planning on getting those anyway. Turns that $280 card into $100 for a performance increase.

I may hold off for other vendor's cards though. Is PowerCooler a good brand? Have any other vendors (MSI, Asus, XFX) announced a 590 card?

This is my line of thinking as well. 100 bucks for a performance boost. It was the same line of thinking that made me get a Pro Ps4 and I liked that purchase.

Only if the bundle was DMC5, Sekiro and RE2 though. I liked Division 1 but I was planning on getting part 2 later.
 

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Is this a worthy upgrade from a GTX 970?

That's what I'm wondering about too. I also need to know what kind of power it takes to run and the heat/noise it gives off.

Should use about the same amount of power as the GTX 970. As for heat and noise, you'll have to wait for reviews. But I would guess it would be similar.

If you're interested in the three games, then I would actually say it's a decent upgrade from the 970. Not in raw processing power, but it's got way more memory which makes it far better at a lot of modern games, and a lot more future proof. And hey, freesync.
 
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To those saying not worth upgrading from a 970 I would disagree. A 580 is already significantly faster than 970 and you get 4gb more ram.


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To those saying not worth upgrading from a 970 I would disagree. A 580 is already significantly faster than 970 and you get 4gb more ram.


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Depends how much you value the games. I'd personally go for the much lower wattage 6GB 1060 with Monster Hunter that's selling for 229.99 at Newegg.
 

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My RX 480 literally just died on me today so this is perfect timing. Is this thing available to purchase anywhere right now? I couldn't find any listings for it.
 
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Depends how much you value the games. I'd personally go for the much lower wattage 6GB 1060 with Monster Hunter that's selling for 229.99 at Newegg.

Imo there's a much stronger argument to not upgrade from a 970 to a 1060 or 580. The extra 10-15% on top with the 590 though and 4gb extra memory I'd say pushes it into a worthy upgrade.