Benchmarks of an as-of-yet-unknown GPU have surfaced in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database - one that could point towards performance levels on an upcoming AMD GPU (the RX 490?). With new cards based on Vega expected to arrive in early 2017 sporting a brand new architecture, hope is they will fill in AMD's utterly lacking (as in, equal to zero) enthusiast-class performance graphics solutions. The new GPU appears to be within spitting distance of the already established GTX 1080, with only a few percentage points separating the two (with the unknown graphics card having an 85.1 average frame-rate in all batches at 1080p standard settings, against 93.4 on a GTX 1080 - with both values potentially varying with particular overclocking characteristics and so on, so please don't take them at face value.The data was attributed to a user Ceaj, and the GPU in question carries the Device ID 687F:C18. This is in-line with AMD's already-released Polaris generation of graphics cards, which also use the 0x6*** code - while still potentially denoting a different architecture, not being related to Polaris 10 or 11 - whereas rival NVIDIA makes use of 0x1***-type codes. The graphics chip appears to be much faster than Radeon RX 480, while offering comparable performance to GTX 1080. Judging from how AOTS benchmark recognizes dual-GPU graphics cards, the new card is most likely equipped with one processor. This device ID was not shown anywhere yet, so it's definitely something unreleased.

The Radeon RX 490 "Vega10" is rumored to sport the new GCN uARCH (GFX9). The chip is expected to deliver as much as 24 TFLOPs half-precision and 12 TFLOPs single-precision compute performance. It is also expected to feature up to 16 GB of HBM2 (now that it's a cheaper, more refined process than it was at Gen 1) that is clocked to operate at 512 GB/s. The cards based on this chip are expected to carry up to 225W rated TDPs.