RX 490 is closer than you think. Brace yourself team red.

[Guest]

According to this newspaper

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-radeon-rx-490-appears-new-horizon-event-possible/

 

Thete is a listing for a card called RX 490 

https://www.prisguide.no/produkt/amd-radeon-rx-490-265669

 

Now this is just a regular shopping site from Norway? What's Norway has to do with it. But it a similar thing can be seen with NCIX putting i7 7700k online too. 

 

You can see the card support Crossfire which is normal (though it's not official)  and uses pcie 3.0 x16 which is also normal. Nothing else so far. The image on the site could be of the regular 480 but the 470 and 460 had similar designs too so nothing can be sure. 

 

So now we should be expecting AMD's new card to be announced somewhere same time as desktop i7 kaby lake. 

 

 AMD's high end card can niw hopefully compete with Pascal 1070/1080/Titan X from Nvidia

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dizmo]

I'm pretty sure this was already posted...and their new card isn't supposed to be anything ground breaking, unfortunately.

[Guest]

Just now, dizmo said:

I'm pretty sure this was already posted...and their new card isn't supposed to be anything ground breaking, unfortunately.

Moar info... Though yes. Lock it if repost

[Guest]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

I'm pretty sure this was already posted...and their new card isn't supposed to be anything ground breaking, unfortunately.

But they did prettt good job with... uhm heat wait no (but that's the story of the past as AMD has better temps now). Maybe DX 12 then... 

[dizmo]

15 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

But they did prettt good job with... uhm heat wait no (but that's the story of the past as AMD has better temps now). Maybe DX 12 then... 

It's supposed to be marginally better than a 1070. So it'll call come down to price point. Which will be interesting. Can't be too close to the 480, or the 1070. So it'll likely be around $350.

[Prysin]

18 minutes ago, dizmo said:

It's supposed to be marginally better than a 1070. So it'll call come down to price point. Which will be interesting. Can't be too close to the 480, or the 1070. So it'll likely be around $350.

that's not a bad price, since most 1070s is far past 400

[tsk]

This is just a price search site. It doesn't really mean anything, other than it saying "rumoured launch q4"

[You_are_a_cunt]

That looks just like a reference 480 to me

[Litargirio]

Psh... if AMD was able to compete against 1080, they would already be doing so.

[Notional]

Afaik the 490 is a dual 480 card? Or a full core 480? It's not VEGA.

[Bouzoo]

28 minutes ago, Notional said:

Afaik the 490 is a dual 480 card? Or a full core 480? It's not VEGA.

That we don't know, but if we're to trust leaks, it's an HBM2 which is slightly better than 1070. Slightly underwhelming for me. Was hoping it would go for 1080. And it's called Pro? 

Anyhow, rumors and leaks. 

 

[Carclis]

I'm pretty sure the 490 doesn't exist. It doesn't make sense being this close to the Vega launch.

[MeDownYou]

9 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

That we don't know, but if we're to trust leaks, it's an HBM2 which is slightly better than 1070. Slightly underwhelming for me. Was hoping it would go for 1080. And it's called Pro? 

Anyhow, rumors and leaks. 

 

What if it is a card in between their consumer line and firepro line? Honestly, I can see them doing something like this I mean there is a reason some people loved the original titan. It is however a small market, but the raw Tflops from many AMD cards appear to be good even if they don't perform optimally.

[oskarha]

Prisguide always makes entries like this to their website. The 480 was listed long before it's launch. Nothing special

[Liltrekkie]

58 minutes ago, Carclis said:

I'm pretty sure the 490 doesn't exist. It doesn't make sense being this close to the Vega launch.

 

Not true, it could be argued that instead of doing the whole 8000's naming schemes like the 200 series cards and NVIDIA's current 1000's series cards (im looking at you 1060) they could be doing something as the RX series as the low to mid cards, then have a fury or R9 and then fury type deal to keep the naming scheme simple and easier to understand.

 

So it would look something like this

 

RX; competes wtth 1050,1060 slightly slower than a 1070, with the RX 460, 470, 480 and 490 respectively. 

R9 xxx would compete directly with the 1070, 1080

Fury which would compete with the 1080 TI and titan. 

 

Or they could just omit the R9 naming scheme and stick with the Fury line up, so we have the RX competing the same as above, and the Fury directly competing with 1070, 1080, 1080 TI if such a thing exists eventually, and the titan. Probably titan less so. 

 

Now, this assumes AMD isn't being idiots with naming schemes this time (fat chance but)

They could completely one up NVIDIA with the clear cut naming scheme that would be ripe for marketing. Unlike the current 1060 mess. 

 

It completely makes sense to do that. 

[TheRandomness]

6 hours ago, Bouzoo said:

That we don't know, but if we're to trust leaks, it's an HBM2 which is slightly better than 1070. Slightly underwhelming for me. Was hoping it would go for 1080. And it's called Pro? 

Anyhow, rumors and leaks. 

 

Look how nice and exact those 490 results are.... I'm calling that to be fake

6 hours ago, Notional said:

Afaik the 490 is a dual 480 card? Or a full core 480? It's not VEGA.

The 480 already has the fully unlocked core. It either has to be Vega 11 or a dual GPU card. Or the Polaris V2 architecture they're using the Macbook Pro for a new chip.

[Mihle]

Dont take it as anything to be listed on that site.

Its not a store, but a price search site, aka one you use to find what store sells a thing for the cheapest.

 

They probably do it because of free marketing

[Carclis]

1 hour ago, Liltrekkie said:

 

Not true, it could be argued that instead of doing the whole 8000's naming schemes like the 200 series cards and NVIDIA's current 1000's series cards (im looking at you 1060) they could be doing something as the RX series as the low to mid cards, then have a fury or R9 and then fury type deal to keep the naming scheme simple and easier to understand.

 

So it would look something like this

 

RX; competes wtth 1050,1060 slightly slower than a 1070, with the RX 460, 470, 480 and 490 respectively. 

R9 xxx would compete directly with the 1070, 1080

Fury which would compete with the 1080 TI and titan. 

 

Or they could just omit the R9 naming scheme and stick with the Fury line up, so we have the RX competing the same as above, and the Fury directly competing with 1070, 1080, 1080 TI if such a thing exists eventually, and the titan. Probably titan less so. 

 

Now, this assumes AMD isn't being idiots with naming schemes this time (fat chance but)

They could completely one up NVIDIA with the clear cut naming scheme that would be ripe for marketing. Unlike the current 1060 mess. 

 

It completely makes sense to do that. 

To be honest, the RX branding for low to mid end cards and R9 for high end makes even less sense than their old branding because X (10) is superior to 9. If these benchmarks are legitimate and this is not a Vega card it's pretty much guaranteed to be a dual-gpu card and that would mean a name such as the RX 485 or maybe even R2X 480 if they feel like changing things up. Given that all the rumours are calling it the Pro 490 I'm going to say that it's a dual 480 gpu card just like the Fury Pro was to the Fury. The Pro branding would also make sense since pro cards do not compete with typical consumer cards and it then would not matter that Vega is just around the corner.

[Trik'Stari]

I'm just excited because I've been waiting to buy one. Going to give team red a try for a while. Tired of Nvidia's shit multi-monitor support.

[ThinkWithPortals]

1 hour ago, Liltrekkie said:

RX; competes wtth 1050,1060 slightly slower than a 1070, with the RX 460, 470, 480 and 490 respectively. 

R9 xxx would compete directly with the 1070, 1080

Fury which would compete with the 1080 TI and titan. 

That wouldn't work. The X in RX (eg. RX 460, 470 and 480) means ten in Roman numerals. The RX series is actually the R10 series, the successor to the R9 series. So it wouldn't make sense to have RX (R10) be lower-end than R9.

[VerticalDiscussions]

I mean, sure it can be a 1070 competitor, but a 1080 and Titan XP competitor .-.?

 

Where is the RX 495x2 xD?

[Agosto]

Yay

 

Another "pro" dual gpu card

 

How exciting.

[Wolther]

1 hour ago, Agost said:

Yay

 

Another "pro" dual gpu card

 

How exciting.

Whats wrong with dual gpu if it's done right?

How do you even know its a dual gpu?

[Carclis]

5 minutes ago, Wolther said:

Whats wrong with dual gpu if it's done right?

How do you even know its a dual gpu?

Support seems to be going backwards for multi-gpu's and it's just not worth it compared to a single gpu. I would say it's a dual gpu if the actual name is 490 Pro. Pro seems to be a name that AMD goes to when the card is a tough sell to consumers ie Fury Pro which was priced way too high.

[Wolther]

9 minutes ago, Carclis said:

Support seems to be going backwards for multi-gpu's and it's just not worth it compared to a single gpu. I would say it's a dual gpu if the actual name is 490 Pro. Pro seems to be a name that AMD goes to when the card is a tough sell to consumers ie Fury Pro which was priced way too high.

Mmm, AMD has been making improvements to multi-gpu a lot recently, so I wouldn't say that. 

 

And it could be many things. Could even be a mobile gpu for all we know. The chart above looks fake so I'm not gonna base any conclusions off of it