The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.
Memory
Memory
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
1.750 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
224 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.
The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
Base Clock
1.469 GHz
1.178 GHz
Boost Clock
1.580 GHz
1.244 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has a turbo clock of 1.580 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is 1.244 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
TDP
225 W
150 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
90 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
1 x 8-Pin
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.
The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
Fan-Type
Axial
Axial
Fan 1
2 x 100 mm
2 x 90 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB are cooled with a Air cooling.
The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.4
DVI
1
1
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12
12
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.
The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
Decode
AV1
No
No
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
Length
270 mm
246 mm
Height
124 mm
130 mm
Width
53 mm
39 mm
Width (Slots)
3 Slots
2 Slots
Weight
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622 g
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB is 53 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is 53 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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