As excited as we are for AMD's upcoming Navi graphics cards and Ryzen 3000 CPUs, AMD has one more trick up its sleeve to celebrate not only the past few years of its successes, but the 50th anniversary of the company as a whole. Although not officially announced, new leaks have shown that on May 1, 50 years after the company was founded, special editions of AMD's RX 590 graphics card and 2700X CPU will be released.
The special 50th Anniversary edition of the RX 590 is made by Sapphire and features a custom yellow gold cooling shroud and an enhanced cooler with larger headpipes and clear-blade cooling fans. Its clocks have been slightly increased over the standard, already heavily overclocked, RX 590, with memory that reaches 2,100MHz and a core that boosts to 1,560MHz.
Considering the price is around $275 after sales taxes are taken into consideration, it's almost $50 more than the standard RX 590 which isn't worth it from a performance standpoint. However, if you want to own a particular piece of gaming hardware history, the option is there.
The 2700X could be an equally hard sell with 7nm Ryzen 3000 CPUs just around the corner. We don't have specifications for it, however, so it may be heavily binned to provide additional performance like Intel's 8086 anniversary edition CPU which was really an 8700K that had been binned and heavily overclocked. The new 2700X still likely won't hold a candle to its Ryzen 3000 counterpart that's coming just a few months later, but it will once again be a collectors item, so worth considering if you're a hardware historian or just want to upgrade in the next month rather than in a few.
At least it's cheaper than the standard version. WCCFTech claims it will be around $340, rather than the $384 of the standard 2700X.
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