XFX RX590 Fatboy Review
Introduction
Next up in our brace of RX 590 reviews is the XFX RX 590 Fatboy.
We’re struggling to think of a card that has come with such a strange name. It would be like calling a card a lard arse. However, names are temporary and forgettable, as long as the performance is there nobody will give two hoots about its subtitle. We did prefer the Dual Dissipation name of old XFX cards though.
So far we’ve seen that the RX 590 is a bit better than the RX 580 and the GTX 1060, giving performance akin to a theoretical GTX 1065. How does the XFX take upon this new Radeon card compare to the PowerColor Red Devil version? Let’s find out.
Technical Specifications
As you can see, the RX 590 is largely a faster version of the RX 580, with the reduction in process from the 14nm of the old RX 580 to the smaller 12nm of the RX 590 enabling higher clock speeds and more power to be fed to the card. Like the PowerColor the XFX Fatboy comes equipped with a factory overclock.
| Â | Radeon RX 590 | Radeon RX 580 |
| GCN Architecture | 4th Generation | 4th Generation |
| Manufacturing Process | 12nm FinFET | 14nm FinFET |
| Die Size | 232 mm2 | 232 mm2 |
| Compute Units | 36 | 36 |
| Stream Processors | 2304 | 2304 |
| Clock Speed (Boost/Base) | 1545 MHz/1469 MHz | 1340 MHz/1257 MHz |
| Compute Performance | 7.1 TFLOPS | 6.17 TFLOPS |
| Texture Units | 144 | 144 |
| Texture Fill Rate | 222.4 GT/s | 190 GT/s |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| Pixel Fill Rate | 49.5 GP/s | 42.9 GP/s |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Bandwidth | 256 GB/s | 256 GB/s |
| Memory Interface | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Board Power | 225W | 185W |
| Freesync Support | Yes | Yes |
| DirectX 12 Support | Yes | Yes |
| Vulkan Support | Yes | Yes |
| Display Port Version | 1.3 HBR/1.4 HDR | 1.3 HBR/1.4 HDR |
