It’s Not A Question Between Vega 10 Or Dual-Polaris 10, Where is AMD Radeon RX 490?

Where is the "AMD Radeon RX 490"? After almost half year of speculations, insinuations, rumors and exclusive leaks, AMD has yet to release, or even introduce what has caught the eye of many tech analysts, hobbyists, and hardcore gamers, is AMD's rumored last graphics card for 2016 "Radeon RX 490", true, or plain rumors?

"AMD Radeon RX 490" Surfaced

Back in July, information about "AMD Radeon RX 490" surfaced on the SAPPHIRE website, a retailer partner of AMD as reported by TweakTown.com. It could have been just an ordinary release of another graphics card from AMD. The only thing is, "Radeon RX 490" is not included on the current list of graphics cards from the Polaris 10 architecture.

"AMD has confirmed to us that the RX 480 is based on the most powerful configuration of the Polaris 10 GPU," WCCFTech.com reported, then adding that, "This makes the RX 490 quite the mystery card, because the most powerful configuration of Polaris 10 is already in-use." So if Polaris 10 is maxed out with the release of "Radeon RX 480", what's the configuration of "Radeon RX 490"?

And this has been the hottest topic since then. Especially since the release date is intended before the year ends, meaning AMD would still try to beat NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 this year.

"AMD Radeon RX 490" Specifications - Dual-Polaris or Vega Architecture

Then, details of "AMD Radeon RX 490" specifications were revealed as posted by VideoCardz.com. And the single, major revelation about the purported upcoming video card is that it will be the first graphics card of Vega architecture, with 8192MB RAM HBM2, 4096-bit bus width and 512GB/s bandwidth.
But questions rose anew following the recent benchmark of an AMD graphics card, which many believe is "Radeon RX 490". Based on the information released by Ashes of the Singularity, the graphics card was known only as Device ID 687F:C1. Two contrasting things arose during the benchmark. First, the benchmark was unable to categorize the GPU architecture which would mean it's new, leaning towards Vega.

Second, the performance was measly comparable to that of GeForce GTX 1080, which is powered by GDDR5X. If early rumors are true, then "AMD Radeon RX 490" powered by HBM2, is supposed to be four times greater than GDDR5X. Thus, the result leans towards Polaris 10.
But whether "AMD Radeon RX 490" is Vega 10 or Dual-Polaris 10, it's no longer out of the question. The only question now is, will it be released? And if yes, when?


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AMD Vega 10 GPU Scores RRA Certification; Specs, Price, Performance and More!

AMD's new Vega 10 GPU, which will have the next generation graphics card by Radeon-red team, and its upcoming Polaris 12 GPU recently received their RRA certification. The Vega 10 is expected to roll out sometime in 2017.

The new AMD Vega 10 GPU is expected to have a graphics card that can go head on with rival Nvidia's GPU line-up, PC Games N reported. To bring concrete 4K gaming, the new Vega GPU aims to bring high-end Radeon graphics card with strong GTX 1080 Ti contender.

AMD Vega 10 GPU Scores RRA Certification

With that goal in mind, it is important that the new AMD Vega 10 GPU will get its RRA certification. This certification is an approval of South Korea's National Radio Research Agency given to silicon-based electronic product, Tweaktown reported. After being given this certification, the product can now be pushed in the market.

For the last few months, AMD has been teasing fans with the Radeon RX 460 that its new Polaris 12 has. According to AMD, this would be the fastest GPU for any Polaris line up.

AMD Vega 10 GPU Specs, Price, Performance

It has been confirmed that AMD will release its Vega graphics card during the first half of 2017. This means the new AMD Vega GPU is expected to come out any time close to that date.
The new AMD Vega GPU is expected to have 8GB card with next generation high bandwidth memory of HBM2. It is also expected to have the 2,048-bit memory bus with a bandwidth that goes up to 512GB/s. With all these advancements, it could be expected that fans will enjoy a Radeon RX 590 later on.

If the new AMD Vega 10 GPU will compete with the GTX 1080 Ti or the GTX Titan X, then it could be expected that it will be priced anywhere at $1,200 to $800.

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