MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G
vs
PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G and the PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 590 and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 is based on AMD Radeon RX 570, which has 2048 shaders and 32 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G GPU PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on AMD Radeon RX 570
Polaris 30 XT GPU Chip Polaris 20 XL
GCN 4 Architecture GCN 4
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 32
2304 Shader 2048
32 Render Output Units 32
144 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 can access 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.469 GHz. The base frequency of the PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 is 1.105 GHz.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.105 GHz
1.545 GHz Boost Clock 1.105 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G is 220 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 has a TDP of 150 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

220 W TDP 150 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports --
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports --
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G is 278 mm long, 143 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 is 255 mm long, 137 mm high and 47 mm wide.

278 mm Length 255 mm
143 mm Height 137 mm
40 mm Width 47 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
873 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G was released in Q3/2019 at a price of 279 $.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Mining 8GB GDDR5 was introduced in Q3/2018 at a price of 169 $.

-- Part-no AXRX 570 8GBD5-DM
Q3/2019 Release date Q3/2018
279 $ Launch Price 169 $
14 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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