With this setup I was able to keep the GPU below 75 degrees. For this revision AMD has dumped the GCN4 14nm parts we saw with the RX 480 (Polaris 10) introduced in 2016 and the first refresh RX 580 (Polaris 20) launched last year. Lol it's not really the rest of the world's fault the Canadian Dollar absolutely freaking sucks right now. And in terms of 'fatness', the RX 590 Fatboy has the 2.5 slot Double Dissapation style cooler, leading up to a height of 2.09". Let's find out what it can do. Also I'm an idiot and… https://t.co/jMqDs6CXH6. The bottom view shows how robust the heat sink package is and the amount of space occupied by the heat sink. A pair of 80 mm fans guide air through an aluminium fin-stack heatsink. Along the bottom of the box are the AMD-specific features that state this card is VR ready, HDR ready, supports AMD FreeSync 2 technology, Relive, and a host of other features. There is a small switch next to the power connector - flip this switch to change to the "Performance" BIOS. Gone are the bridge connections of the past, as AMD moved on to XConnect technology to pass the cross-card communication through the PCIe 3.0 bus. It won't run OCCT or AIDA64 or userbenchmark.exe. Modern chassis are well equipped to turn over the case air volume fairly regularly with large 120mm and 140mm fans to manage the airflow. I'd agree with you when people claim "the sweet spot of 4k monitors is 28 inches". I'll probably return the 590 and hope my 5600XT gets the game fixes eventually. As silly as the 'Fatboy' name may be, it seems to have done its marketing job by raising interest, critical or otherwise, and for a subdued Polaris refresh SKU, that extra differentiation can be helpful. As you say this is w/ the fans maxxed out w/ 20.2.2 and the bios switch to performance (towards the power cables). (software issue?). We had this discussion the last time AMD published t… https://t.co/5TI6WNvlQJ. Please turn JavaScript back on and reload this page. During this time I also got a new ssd and I was hoping a fresh install of windows might solve the issue. Nevermind 4K, the rest of the world will look a lot better also if your eyes are okay :). After setting the voltage to manual it did have 1,150 by default in Wattman. Both the XFX Fatboy and PowerColor Red Devil have zero dB fan functionality as well, turning off the fans under certain temperatures and lighter workloads. My theory is that gaming adds more work for the vram than a synthetic test would. I do know this, the card is not working as it should out of the box. The VRM overheating would explain it. Back in the days of CRT monitors, most people would notice flicker with a 60Hz monitor, but wouldn't notice with 72Hz. Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBN2KDiw-V8. This Polaris 30 part comes with the same 5.7 billion transistor count, 2304 streaming processors, 144 texture units, 32 ROPS, and the same 8GB of high-speed Micron GDDR5 memory running through a 256-bit bus. It will still eventually crash). Oh, and don’t remove the cooler, like I did. I think the vram modules might be overheating after long periods of running the card close to or at 80°C. In one day it’s crashed about 8 times so far while playing War Thunder. Depends on the monitor. This shroud is part of the aluminum backplate and wraps around the back end of the card to finish off the look. Jive Software Version: 2018.25.0.0_jx, revision: 20200515130928.787d0e3.release_2018.25.0-jx, AMD fires back at 'Super' NVIDIA with Radeon RX 5700 price cuts. What we have from AMD is a refreshed design of its aging, but still viable, Polaris architecture. We’ve updated our terms. Display connectivity on the XFX RX 590 Fatboy 8GB consists of a single DL-DVI-D port, a single HDMI 2.0b port, and a trio of HDR-ready DisplayPort 1.4 ports that support up to four displays. I know that if I send the card back, they will do similar stress and benchmark tests to see if it’s faulty and will find nothing as I have. @EMahmoodnejad @GlennAlanBerry CUDA, and RT NV, are NV proprietary technologies. AMD GPU gamers only - your opinion on AMD drivers? Let me shadow you in person for a week for an article. Transform the most demanding games into a liquid-smooth, artifact-free, 4K cinematic experience with the highest performance at virtually any frame rate. While I think foam does a better job of insulating the card from damage, XFX's all-cardboard option just works. That GCN 4 Polaris 20-based card was capable of a modest overclock that topped out at 1440MHz. Man, I still have a hard 200 dollar cap on any single component. Though as much as I'd like to claim credit for helping, it wasn't me.… https://t.co/YtFxmAcvVr, @BrettHowse It's not really a valid science experiment until it's verified by an outside party. With so much extra airflow the vram modules don’t overheat as the GPU runs cooler and as a result the PCB would also be cooler. XFX is well known for its cooling solutions. This allows for up to 275 watts inbound to the card when you combine the 75W from the PCIe bus and the 200W from the power supply through the PEG connection. Packed into the 232mm² sized die are 36 compute units, 2304 stream processors, 144 texture units, and 32 ROPs. The shroud has a carbon fiber effect on it for added visual appeal. It didn’t. At 10" long but 2.24" (57mm) high, the Red Devil RX 590 is a particuarly squat but thick card - just 3mm away from the standard triple-slot width. So I left it as is… did not change any voltage numbers. This cleans up the look in your chassis. But that is entirely depending on how large the display is and how far you sit away from said display. There are people who notice the differences, and those who do not. The card at just over two inches thick does not qualify for "Fat" status, but it definitely is a thicker package than your standard reference design. Interesting, I appear to have the same problem with this card. After about an hour of play it crashed. By just dropping the max framerate, my temperatures to drop a good 15 degrees, and keep the temperature in the high 60's to low 70's s for temperature. I restarted the machine, went back into the game, played another 5-10min and it crashed again. I had a similar problem with a GTX780 card. I managed 84c with a stress test, but no crash. The cooler is longer than the PCB underneath it. There have been efforts to port CU… https://t.co/EQLaSLYAb8, @hanselltc @Vole182 3175X is technically a Xeon No stuttering. By continuing to use the site and/or by logging into your account, you agree to the Site’s updated. My eyes are fine. Thinking that it was definitely heat/load related, even though the temps displayed OK, I pulled the cooler off. That is a thermal problem indeed. Now, I’ve worked in IT for almost 20 years. @JoHei13 @Hifihedgehog That tool is accurate for what it does. While the shroud is larger than the card, it is more for the visual than the function. *** The XFX RX590 Fatboy is a DUAL BIOS card. So I’ve been doing tons of more testing and I think I might have a theory to the problem. In theory, nothing should actually have changed, right? It would get up above 80 and I'd have a full lockup. Thick, but perhaps not as thick as the Red Devil, which stands at 2.24". I got a new game that made the card work hard and it started randomly locking up with a black screen, with the sound playing in the background. Long story short, as soon as I used the “A-word” (artefacts), the EVGA rep said that it was definitely the card and arranged an exchange. The sole advantage of 4K is not needing to run AA.