[SOLVED] About that Sapphire Nitro RX 590

[gn842a]

My brother calls my attention to the fact that Unigine Superposition benchmark identifies my Nitro RX 590 as a 580. Is it common for benchmarks to screw that stuff up? Or is the 590 just a 580 with a pretty blue cover. Greg N

 

[EndEffeKt_24]

It is essentially a pretty RX580 with a factory overclock.

 

[gn842a]

It is essentially a pretty RX580 with a factory overclock.

Feels deceptive.

 

[Gam3r01]

Thats not entirely true, while it does share many similarities with the 580, its not just an OCed 580:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-590,5907.html

First few paragraphs give a general idea.

 

[EndEffeKt_24]

Thats not entirely true, while it does share many similarities with the 580, its not just an OCed 580:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-590,5907.html

First few paragraphs give a general idea.

Yeah its a little more complicated...I might have exaggerated a bit. But 12 nm aside it is just an advantage in clockspeed.

 

[King_V]

What does the Windows Device Manager call it?
What does GPU-Z call it?

 

[digitalgriffin]

Yeah its a little more complicated...I might have exaggerated a bit. But 12 nm aside it is just an advantage in clockspeed.

There's also the faster memory. The memory speed will confirm if you have a genuine RX590. (GPUz reports memory clock as well as the Radeon software.)


The 590 was fab'd at a different facility. It runs hotter, but also overclocks a lot better. Default ~10% gains over the stock 580 are not an issue. With adequate cooling you might be ~15% gains.

 

[gn842a]

Well windows DEVICES and Speccy and CPUID all recognize it as a 590. Only Unigine is being recalcitrant. 8 gigs DDR5 2100 MHz