AMD's rumored, expected, and thoroughly leaked, RX 590, is set to debut on November 15, according to the latest leak. It also pegs it at around 12 percent faster than an RX 580 on average, with a price tag of $280, which gives it a comparable cost to a GTX 1060, which at those numbers it should thoroughly beat in benchmarks and games.
AMD's last graphics card release was the Vega-series in 2017. Thanks to cryptocurrency mining, few gamers ever got their hands on them and though today they are the most powerful cards AMD has to offer, newer and more powerful cards from Nvidia have still proved more popular. AMD's more mid-range offerings, the RX 500 series, which debuted in early-2017, have become a common choice for those not interested in spending $300+ on individual GPUs. The RX 580 in particular.
The RX 590 is set to somewhat replace, somewhat supplant, and somewhat sit alongside and above that card. Based on a reformed, 12nm Polaris 30 graphics architecture, the RX 590 has an extra 200MHz or core clock and in early tests, appears to deliver around 12 percent performance improvement over the RX 580, as per VideoCardz. That makes it an attractive buy at $280, especially when compared to Nvidia's GTX 1060 6GB, which is around the same price and weaker even than the RX 580 in most tests and games.
The card features the same 8GB of 8GHz GDDR5 memory and the same 256-bit memory bus, so we don't expect any greater bandwidth out of the card. However, if aftermarket cooling solutions can keep its temperature down, we might see some factory overclocked versions that push its capabilities even further.
Expect an official announcement for the card tomorrow, November 15.
