AMD Radeon RX 490 will is rumored to be the first graphics card to sport the new and more powerful Vega 10 architecture, which is rumoured to be at par with NVIDIA's Pascal, the Christian Times has reported.
On the other hand, Wccftech reported that the Vega 10 is scheduled for 2017, hence insinuating that the leaked graphics card won't be using said powerful architecture.
AMD RX 490 is not expected to arrive soon because of its absence in AMD's August 2016 Investor Presentation, Game N Guide reported. The high-end RX 490 graphics card is slated for launching in 2017.
Said graphics card will be supporting 4K technology and virtual reality. It is rumored to have a 1,200 MHz GPU base clock with a 350 (1400) MHz memory clock. The new graphics card will have a power of 9,830 GigaFlops, as reported by YIBADA.
The new RX has 1.5 more teraflops of processing power, much higher than the RX 480's 5.8 teraflops, with the ability to hit 60 frames per second at 1080p in popular games including DOTA 2.
The '4' in the name refers to the generation - fourth generation GCN architecture. While '8' indicates the tier of gaming it's aimed at. With an '8' or a '7,' AMD is aiming for a 256-bit memory bus, with the ability to improve gaming performance at 1440p resolutions.
This is where it gets interesting in terms of the RX 490. Huddy explained that a fourth-gen '9' series card is specifically targeting a greater than 256-bit bus with a focus on gaming at 4K.
The RX 480 will be running at a TDP of 150W, and the Polaris 10 chip will run on its own rate at 110W TDP. The Radeon RX 490 is rumoured to be coming with a package of 16GB memory and 512GB memory bandwidth. If this proves to be true in GFI, then the Radeon RX 490 will be more powerful than both the GeForce GTX 1080 and Titan X.
AMD has yet to confirm a release for the Radeon RX 490, but it is rumored to be released in the first half of 2017.
