There have been quite a few rumors on the refresh of the Polaris architecture for AMD GPUs and from recent leaks the rumors seem to be right. New benchmark data from Final Fantasy XV scoreboard show an AMD RX 590 graphic card listed with a score beating the GTX 1060 (the 6GB flavor) in 1440p Lite quality.
Test at 4K show the RX 590 beating the 1060 as well and even manages to beat the Radeon Pro Vega 64, but managed to get lower results than the Radeon Pro Vega 56 (which is odd, but might be related to the difference in clock speeds between the Vega 56 and Vega64).
Until today Nvidia’s GTX 1060 6GB was the goto default standard for budget/mainstream builds but things might change with the launch of the RX 590. Depending on how AMD will set their prices the 1060’s reign might end. Speaking of launch, the RX 590 is rumored to be released on the 15’th of November.
The release speculation date comes from MyDrivers.com which claims not only this release date but also a price tag of 2099 Chinese Yuan which is around $300. The Radeon RX 590 is expected to be a fresh Polaris 30 architecture based on the 12nm process node and run with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Nevertheless, the revitalized performance from the Polaris architecture is likely all down to an increase in clock speeds, with AMD managing to wrestle more power/performance from the long in the tooth architecture before AMD Navi takes the hot seat.
It will be interesting to see how the RX 590 will fare against the new refresh of the GTX 1060 (the 4’th one) running GDDR5X memory, but we will have to wait for those results to come in as there is no information at this date about that.
