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Installation
Test Rig
For our tests, we used a new test rig which is comprised of an EVGA Z370 Micro Motherboard, along with an Intel Core i7-8700K at boost clock speed of 4.3GHz, as well as 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3000 ram in dual channel mode.
All tests were conducted at default clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.3GHz (Coffee Lake) |
| Cooling | Corsair H115i AIO |
| Motherboard | EVGA Z370 Micro Motherboard |
| Ram | 16GB GEIL Super Luce RGB DDR4-3600 |
| HDD | Patriot Hellfire 240GB PCIE M.2 SSD |
| PSU | Cooler Master 750W |
| VGA card | ASRock Radeon RX 590 8G OC |
| Nvidia Drivers | Version 414.7 WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
ASRock’s Phantom Gaming Tweaker
ASRock has included their Phantom Gaming Tweaker software, which allows you to overclock the card even more. By default the card will run at the non-overclocked clock rate of 1498 MHz. Selecting OC Mode will enable to graphics card to run at predefined boost clock rate of 1591 MHz.
AIDA64 GPU Info
As you can seen from screenshot below … the RX 590 is based on AMD’s Polaris 30 architecture using the 12nm FinFET process
PassMark – Performance Test 9.0 (3D Test)
Test the speed of your 3D video card by selecting from options such as fogging, lighting, alpha blending, wire frame, texturing, resolution, color depth, object rotation and object displacement. Separate tests for DirectX 9,10,11 & 12. With support for 4K resolution.
The Passmark 3D graphics score was an impressive 9630. Not bad, but I’ve seen better.
Idle Temperatures
At the default clock speed of 1560 MHz (boost is 1410 MHz), the idle temperature was around 33 degrees Celsius, which isn’t bad at all.
Load Temperatures
At full load, the card reached a high of 68 degrees Celsius. It’s not the highest I’ve seen, but dual fans and the large heatsink (with heatpipes) handled it well. Expect the temperatures to go higher when you overclock the card.
