By Darren Allan
Fans of Team Red will be pleased to learn that, at least according to the rumour mill, we’ll see the launch of the Radeon R9 490 and R9 490X graphics cards in just over a couple of months.
As VideoCardz notes, according to some generally reliable rumour peddlers over at the Korean site Hardware Battle, AMD plans to unleash new Polaris GPUs built on 16nm FinFET tech. Rumors suggest an announcement at the end of June with a possible initial unveiling at Computex 2016.
It’s also suggested that the Radeon R9 490/490X duo will be based on Polaris 10 technology rather than Fiji. The R9 480 could also potentially stick with Fiji as well, if the latter is slower than Polaris 10. Based on the existing cards, it’s likely these AMD components will be pitched up against Nvidia’s future GeForce GTX 1070/1080.
Others across the net have suggested, however, that the R9 490 series won’t reach this sort of performance level, and as the focus of Polaris is efficiency, they could be right – but all of this is very much speculation right now. The good news is that it won’t be too long before we know the facts of the matter, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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