The AMD Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 will be launched at the end of June

A new generation of graphics cards is approaching. Just in time for Computex, Nvidia will release the Pascal architecture for the mid-range performance segment, with the Geforce GTX 970 and GTX 980 first to be replaced. Now it looks like AMD may release Polaris around the same period.

According to information from the Korean Hardware Battle, AMD will roll out the Radeon 400 series at the end of June, ie shortly after Computex 2016. It is therefore likely that the company will first make a revelation at the fair, something AMD suggested to SweClocker’s broadcast already during CES 2016 at the beginning of the year.

It has previously been said that the graphics circuit released for Computex is Polaris 11, a small and energy-efficient creation intended primarily for laptops. The new information now suggests that the Polaris 10 is also intended for launch at the same time, and that the graphics circuit will be used in the Radeon R9 490X and R9 490.

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It is not clear what performance the Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 will offer, but the duo is expected to compete with Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. One possibility is that the models will replace today’s Radeon R9 390X and R9 390, and that AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury and The R9 Fury X will continue to be sold in anticipation of the Vega architecture with HBM2 memory in early 2017.

According to AMD itself, the Polaris’ architecture is 2.5 times more energy efficient than today’s graphics circuits, which should be the biggest step the company has ever taken between two generations. This is partly due to the transition from 28 to 14 nanometers and partly to the new architecture, where Polaris is the code name for the more formal Graphics Core Next 4.0.


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