Friday, November 25th 2016
AMD Readies Radeon RX 490 for December?
A spectacular rumor doing rounds has AMD sign 2016 off with a new high-end graphics card launch. The company could launch the Radeon RX 490 by the end of the year, according to an Guru3D report. This SKU could either be based on the larger Vega 10 silicon, or be a dual-GPU on a stick graphics card based on a pair of Polaris 10 "Ellesmere" chips. The former seems more likely as multi-GPU support among recent AAA game launches is dwindling. Earlier this year, AMD inadvertently leaked the SKU name Radeon RX 490 on its website.
If the Radeon RX 490 is based on the Vega 10, then it could feature 4,096 stream processors based on the "Vega" architecture, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 4096-bit HBM2 memory interface, holding 8 GB or 16 GB of memory, with a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s. If instead it is a dual-GPU card based on Polaris 10, then you could be looking at 2x 2,304 stream processors, and 16 GB of GDDR5 memory across two 256-bit wide memory interfaces.
Source:
Guru3D
If the Radeon RX 490 is based on the Vega 10, then it could feature 4,096 stream processors based on the "Vega" architecture, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 4096-bit HBM2 memory interface, holding 8 GB or 16 GB of memory, with a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s. If instead it is a dual-GPU card based on Polaris 10, then you could be looking at 2x 2,304 stream processors, and 16 GB of GDDR5 memory across two 256-bit wide memory interfaces.
112 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon RX 490 for December?
Fingers crossed for Vega.
I would be disappointed if that's the case, but my 290X should do for a bit longer. AMD really need something to deal with the incoming GTX 1080 Ti though. And a dual-gpu card based on the Polaris 10 core won't be good competition for it. If AMD release the Vega 10 and it's slower than a GTX 1080, then I can't see AMD catching up to Nvidia ever. They may just release mid to low range cards like the RX 480 considering how successful that core was.
According to the Architectural Roadmap, Vega was to be released at the end of 2016, so it makes sense that it would be Vega.
However, the commercial grade Polaris 10 chip with it's lower TDP makes a higher clocked chip release possible if GLOFLO has refined the process to get higher yields of top silicon.
Sorry I apologies for that, but it was the first thing that came to my mid when reading the title. Really sorry...
If its RX490 there is no way in hell this is a dual-GPU and there is no reason for expensive HBM2 when there is GDDR5X available.
/delusional-fanboy-mode off:D
Besides it was announced months ago that the RX 490 was scheduled for end of 2016, then was delayed. Now it is back on schedule, likely because the process at GLOFLO was squared away.