Just wish the price on the 590's were better.

vbetts:

Just wish the price on the 590's were better.

You can always get a 580, prices are right.

the RX 590 is a good deal for now, especially factoring in free-sync. but in reality this is a placeholder card that helps AMD finish out a contract with GloFlo. there will be a Navi card for both more and less money that will be much more efficient, but if you're building right now, the 590 is a safe bet playable all the way to 1440p.

Its a terrible deal, theres no way the over 2 year old 480 should be this expensive now.

just a fact, not to inflame anyone or anything. we're talking about a gpu that with a free-sync monitor is less than the price of a Vega, which i like as a gpu. there is a market of gamers with limited funds and the 590 can be bundled with a monitor online under $500. they can still get a 580, but the 590 is better in every way. yeah you can argue perceived value where the 580 comes out on top. but c'mon the operative word is gamer. and if you're into the game, want best results, but don't know how to tune a rig this is a slam dunk.

tunejunky:

we're talking about a gpu that with a free-sync monitor is less than the price of a Vega, which i like as a gpu. there is a market of gamers with limited funds and the 590 can be bundled with a monitor online under $500. they can still get a 580, but the 590 is better in every way. yeah you can argue perceived value where the 580 comes out on top.

It's fascinating to me how much local pricing seems to differ when it comes to the current range of GPUs! For example, right now a 590 will cost you 3100 to 3300 SEK (the Strix is 4200 but that's just ridiculous) and a Vega 56 is 3900 to 4200 SEK. Meanwhile you can get the 8GB 580 for 2600 to 2900 SEK (or as high as 3700 to 4000 SEK but again, ridiculous). The 590 is an amazing card, king of the upper midrange for sure, but given the local pricing it's damn hard to recommend over a Vega 56 or one of the cheaper 580s.

Fox2232:

Here I would say to get RX580 over RX590 any day. Almost no reason to look at lower GPUs than that anyway. Even 6 months ago, those cards did cost between 50% more and double of that.

Yeah, I think GPU pricing only stabilized during the fall pretty much on a global scale. Not too dissimilar prices overall, it seems Vega is comparatively more expensive in many places compared to here (Sweden) though.

Best update of this card is memory clock, RX500 has VRAM bottleneck