XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
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MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G

The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.58 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.28 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.34 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.60 TFLOPS.

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 580 Armor 8G is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

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 580 Armor 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has a turbo clock of 1.580 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G is 1.340 GHz.

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 580 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.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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.

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 580 Armor 8G is 53 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB was released in Q3/2019.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.