The latest leak of AMD RX 490 suggests a beast Vega card ready to take on Nvidia GTX 1080. The specs of upcoming graphic card have been leaked in a retailer listing suggesting a 2016 release.
According to the source, RX 490 is said to be compatible for VR gaming. Actually the graphics card will be gamers' top notch choice. While there is no current mentioning about Polaris or Vega architecture, WccFtech report shows that they are quite confident about the RX 490's debut will happen as a Vega 10-based card.
The revealed benchmark score shows faster graphics performance that supports DirectX 12. The card has a bigger bus width than 256 bits.
HotHardware learns that the listing indicates a graphics card's performance as fast as the premium GTX 1080. This beast card from AMD has all the high-end specs that could be hard to resist.
Based on the said findings, the results listed for the AMD Radeon RX 490 is for the standard 1080P DX 12 that showed a staggering 8,400 points. It is a value on par with its NVIDIA rival GeForce GTX 1080. The latest benchmark score was listed at 131th position before it was deleted, indicating that the result was not supposed to be shown to public.
Previous leaks and reports hinted an 8 GB on board memory with 24 Tflops for half precision and 12 Tflops for single precision of the card. If RX 490 is on par with GTX 1080, then consumers can expect averagely 85 frames per second, for your info GTX 1080 has 85-87 fps.
For the release of the high-end card from AMD, there are rumors on CES 2017 release date; AMD could actually be gearing up for an event to launch AMD RX 490 this December.
Previously it was rumored that AMD Radeon RX 490 will make debut with the Summit Ridge CPUs and AM4 X370 Zen Motherboard on December 13, 2016. But presently Nvidia is ahead of the competition by introducing low to high-end graphics card to the gaming industry. December should be the right time for AMD to release something comparable or better.
