What is Radeon RX 590? Well, no one really knows exactly. Rumours about a ‘new’ Radeon card started appearing last week (actually they started appearing a few months ago, but it was hard to believe at the time — still is).
What is believed now, however, is that there is a upcoming Radeon RX 590 that will feature Polaris architecture, except on 12nm the fabrication node. This would improve performance and power efficiency, but it would certainly not provide a proper response to NVIDIA’s Turing. which kind of sucks!
The entry at 3DMark database indicates that RX 590 would feature 1545 MHz clock, that’s 205 MHz higher than RX 580 boost clock.
The memory clock of 2000 MHz suggest there is no change to the memory subsystem, it is likely still GDDR5-based and will have 8GB of memory.
Performance wise, we are looking at ~10% improvement compared to RX 480. Our factory-overclocked RX 580 PowerColor Red Devil scores 4399 Graphics Score (4639 while overclocked).
So lets put this into perspective! This RX590 will sit between NVIDIA's GTX 1050ti & GTX 1060 3gb in performance. So if this isnt priced around £175-£200 then it's just a waste of time in my opinion.