AMD RX 590 vs Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB in Forza Horizon 4 GPU TEST Full HD 2018
AMD has moved again in the GPU market. Although it is not the movement that would be like, if it is a movement that provides security, it is continuistic and increases performance. Its Polaris 30 architecture offers a performance bonus at a similar price to that seen by Polaris 20 thanks to the new RX 590 cards.
The RX 590 is a twist on the Polaris architecture.
Back in 2016 AMD launched what would be the most "exploited" architecture in its history. Not only in longevity, but in the number of total models available, where it has been able to cover 3 generations with slight adjustments that have been driving the generation generation after generation.
As we say, since the RX 480 practically nothing has GCP graphic layout with the same distribution and components within the RX 590:
In it we find 2304 shaders, 32 ROPs, 1 GCP, 4 ACE, 36 CUs, 4 geometry processors, 144 textures units, 2 MB L2, 256-bit bus, 8 GB GDDR5 and a long etc. that is shared from Polaris 10 up to Polaris 30.
Therefore, the way of rendering is exactly the same: a command processor distributes the workloads among four Shader motors, which distributes the load to a geometry processor, rasterizer and 8 ROP, to finally perform the work on the 9 computing units (CU) .
The computing unit (CU) is the indivisible subunit of the "Polaris" architecture and performs most of the processing on the GPU. Each CU contains 64 flow processors, sharing them with small data caches, a programmer, a scalar unit and four TMUs.
The PowerColor RX 590 is listed and the Vega 20 is displayed in FFXV. New manufacturing process at 12 nm LP by GlobalFoundries. But then where are the improvements? Everything revolves around the "new" manufacturing process for these chips, where Globalfoundries with its 12 nm LP process makes the difference.
Compared with the 14 nm LPP the 12 LP transistors improved and achieved CA performance around 15% at the same DDQ level. All with comparable levels of production and above all reliability, but better at 14 nm.
As far as energy is concerned, the 12 nm contain new libraries of seven and a half tracks (compared to 9 of the 14 nm LPP) where, for identical frequencies, a reduction of the power consumed by up to 16% is achieved.
The heights of the cells have also been improved, since GF has gone from 576 mm in its 14 nm LPP to 480 mm in its 12 nm LP, but interestingly it has not modified the End Pitch, the Poly Pitch and the Metal 2 which are maintained at 48 nm, 84 nm and 64 nm.
This is how we say, curious, since both Samsung and Intel or TSMC vary these distances in their improvements in the processes of lithography. Without going any further, Intel in its "new" 14 nm +++ varied the End Pitch to achieve an improvement in efficiency by requiring less power between transistors, optimizing their current flow.
The problem with not doing this is obviously optimize the use of energy worse, which AMD needs to compete with NVIDIA in this field, but it seems that Lisa's guys do not care about this factor as much as the performance gain. what that node can contribute
First performance tests of the AMD Radeon RX 590: what NVIDIA card is it worth? Thus, although physically containing the same chip only in a smaller manufacturing size and being more efficient at the same frequency, AMD has opted as we have said above for the performance factor. That is why it has raised the frequencies up to 1545 MHz with boost (reference GPUs) from 1266 MHz with boost that the RX 480 has, so this RX 590 manages to raise the bar in this section by 22%.
With this increase comes the rise in, where we went from 150 watts in the RX 480, to 185 watts in the RX 580 to 225 watts of these new RX 590, which implies 50% increase in since Polaris 10 up to Polaris 30
As if this were not enough, since at the moment the figures are not present, we will only have available at the moment and today 4 different models of 4 different assemblers.
For this short availability of models is not so hard, AMD has made available to buyers of any of the 3 models to launch Bundle with three games: Resident Evil 2 (2019), The Division 2 and Devil May Cry 5.
And here's the news of these RX 590 that AMD has officially launched today. But what about performance and?
Curious fact without a doubt, so if you want to get one of these small should look well at current offers and especially the stock, since it is limited and usually in these cases you raise to the price due to lack of availability.