The rumor: in December, AMD’s present flagship, Radeon RX 490 – Overclockers.ru

As we know, the Radeon RX 490 as already mentioned on AMD’s site and on partner sites of the company. Of course, then these references have been removed. But judging by recent reports, this card will still see the light, and it will happen very soon. As reported by our colleagues from the WCCFTech, in December, AMD will not only present, but immediately released a video card Radeon RX 490.

Obviously, the novelty will be the flagship Radeon RX 400, which is headed now by Radeon RX 480, and will be opposed by the GeForce GTX 1080. At the moment, know that the new graphics card is aimed at 4K gaming (3840 x 2160 pixels) and work with the virtual reality helmets. We also know that it will get a wider memory bus than 256-bit. Finally it is reported that the cost of Radeon RX 490 will be almost as much as the GeForce GTX 1080.

But the interesting thing is what will underpin the Radeon RX 490? And the answer here can be only two: either it will be one GPU Vega, or two Polaris 10. And most likely the second scenario. But why it can’t be a single Polaris? Yes, because Polaris in a maximum configuration used in the Radeon RX 480, and AMD claims that its the largest, most powerful graphics processor family of Polaris.

most Likely, the Radeon RX 490 really get two GPUs Polaris 10, so overall, the graphics card will be able to offer users 4608 stream processors. It is true, provided that the processors will be presented in full configuration. The use of two GPUs will also be an excellent solution for graphics aimed at virtual reality, because each GPU can process the image separately for each eye, and the developers can make it so with DirectX 12 and LiquidVR.

this Summer on the website of the Indian customs service had discovered the reference engineering sample video card serial number which started as “C99″. This card, unlike the other samples, was not identified and a very high probability that it is the Radeon RX 490. Is it really Radeon RX 490, it will be based on a pair of Polaris. First, like other samples to Polaris, the serial number of this sample starts with nine. Second, the insurance cost “C99″ about twice the samples of the Radeon RX 480. Finally, the “C99″ certified RRA 8 April 2016, that is, long before the developers of AMD celebrated the achievement of an important stage in the development of Vega this summer.

All this indicates that the advent Vega the Radeon RX 490 highly unlikely, though still possible. Of course, many people want to see in this graphics card this graphics processor, but most likely graphics card on the basis of the Vega will have to wait until next year. But let’s not lose hope, and in any case, we will have a very interesting graphics card, which, hopefully, will allow AMD to compete with NVIDIA at the top end.