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XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy review: Pedal to the heavy metal

XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy review: Pedal to the heavy metal

Posted on November 29, 2018 By Jarvis

Smaller process, bigger cooler, faster speeds—with tradeoffs

How can improvements to the GPU manufacturing process make graphics cards better? There’s no one solution, and today’s launch of the $280 Radeon RX 590 shows that Nvidia and AMD took two wildly divergent paths in the shift to the 12nm process.

Nvidia’s used the extra space and process improvements to cram its GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards with radical, futuristic hardware devoted to driving adoption of real-time ray tracing and machine learning in games.
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