The PCB of the RX 480, not the RX 490, is clean. (Photo : YouTube / Actually Hardcore Overclocking)
There have been numerous speculations about the upcoming chipset from AMD, the Radeon RX 490. The said chipset was reported to feature Vega 10 GPU and its release might take place in 2017's first quarter up to the second quarter.
Most of the fans expected that the AMD Radeon RX 490 will be unveiled before the year ends, iSportTimes had learned. This was due to the post that can be seen on AMD's promotion site wherein patrons who bought AMD products from Feb. 15-Dec. 31, 2016 will be qualified for a free game although the game was not named.
AMD also unveiled in August 2016 during their Investor Presentation that their upcoming GPUs will feature the faster and more powerful High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) technology. The said tech will be an integral part of their future GPU architectures starting with the Vega 10 line which is expected to be revealed soon. It was also reported that the Radeon RX 490 will kick off Vega architecture. AMD's Vega architecture is scheduled for release by the first quarter of 2017 starting with Vega 10.
The Radeon RX 490 is said to be the first AMD graphics card to be integrated with HBM2 technology. This 14nm GPU model might have an 8GB RAM HBM2 with a bus width of 4096-bit and bandwidth of 716.8 GB/s.
Base clock frequencies of this Vega 10 graphics card is expected at 1200MHz which can reach up to 1550MHz thru its Boost Clock and Effective Clock at 1400MHz. Lastly, the Computing Power (FP32) of Radeon RX 490 is at 9,830 GFLOPS with Thermal Design Power (TDP) set at 225W.
The AMD Radeon RX 490 is going to feature a processing power of more than 1.5TFLOPS, which will have the capability to speed up recent gaming up to 60 frames per second at 1080p resolution, University Herald reported. It could be one of the few video cards in the market that will be capable of 4K gaming with decent framerates hopefully up to 60fps.
AMD has not confirmed any of the speculations but the recent leaks of information does give them some credibility. Fans will have to wait in the following weeks whether the company will unveil the Radeon RX 490 Vega 10 video card.
