XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy review: Pedal to the heavy metal
(PCWorld)

How can improvements to the GPU manufacturing process make graphics cards better? There´s no one solution, and today´s launch of the $280 Radeon RX 590 shows that Nvidia and AMD took two wildly divergent paths in the shift to the 12nm process.Nvidia´s used the extra space and process improvements to cram its GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards with radical, futuristic hardware devoted to driving adoption of real-time ray tracing and machine learning in games. The downside? The cheapest RTX option, the RTX 2070, starts at $500. AMD took a different tack: The Radeon RX 590 is essentially identical to the $240 8GB Radeon RX 580 under the hood, but shifting from 14nm to 12nm let AMD eke out much higher clock speeds than before-and prep a new graphics card that challenges the massive price gap between the $250 GTX 1060 and $370 GTX 1070.To read this article in full, please click here