The AMD RX 490 graphics card is an upcoming 4K gaming GPU that will offer more processing power than previously announced cards. It has been spotted three times on websites connected with the company, so typo error has already been ruled out. The powerful GPU is speculated to be unveiled before 2016 ends.
The RX490 was previously spotted on AMD's website and Sapphire's website. It is speculated to be offering something bigger than the 256-bit memory interface, which its own Radeon RX 480 and RX 470 are currently offering, and is considered to be capable of producing 1440p video quality, WCCFTech previously reported.
The publication also went into detail about the possible configuration of the upcoming card. AMD has already mentioned that they will only produce two FinFET GPUs for this year, which are Polaris 10 and the smaller Polaris 11. The company also confirmed that the RX 480 already uses the most power configuration for its Polaris 10 architecture, while Vega, its next planned architecture, is planned for a 2017 release. This boils down to a two-Polaris 10 GPU in a single card.
Additionally, a more expensive GPU was being shipped back and forth between Asia and Canada prior to the release of the latest RX 400 series GPUs. Included in the shipment are the RX 480, RX 470, RX 460 and a C99 graphics cards. The last card has twice the value of the RX 480.
AMD's Radeon Technologies Group senior vice president Raja Koduri was also noted to have mentioned earlier that multi-GPU is the way to go in the graphics card arena, just like multi-core in the CPU field. The company earlier released the Radeon Pro Duo which, consists of dual-Fiji GPUs.
Koduri said, "Multi-GPU is no longer just an enthusiast play, you know that we do just one bleeding-edge card. The way we think about it strategically is that the concept of multi-GPU is going to extend up and down the stack."
The AMD Radeon RX 490 Is not official yet, but fans are hoping to see it in the flesh before the end of this year.
