Radeon RX 490: Release still 2017? - Faster than a Geforce 1070

In the summer came the RX 480 (in the picture). For Christmas, the AMD Radeon RX 490 could appear.


For the Christmas business, Gamer squinted at AMD. The new VEGA architecture for graphics cards will celebrate their debut and Polaris will inherit. AMD brought the Radeon RX 480 to the market only in the summer and positioned itself in terms of performance in the upper middle class segment behind Nvidia. The competitor in the upper class with Geforce GTX 1080, 1070 and the Titan X in the high-end range almost unrivaled. Radeon RX 490, which has been regularly present in the rumored kitchen for several months now, have long been waiting for interested PC installers.


In recent days, benchmark results have emerged for a Radeon Pro 490. Cards with Radeon Pro chip are known from Apple computers such as the current MacBook Pro. The Radeon Pro 490 is to be a lower clocked Radeon RX 490, which is intended to reduce the power consumption in installed devices. A Radeon RX 490 would be faster, and the availability would be much more likely.


For the Pro version, a release is expected in May 2017, the RX 490 could soon be unveiled and launched on the market. It would be a start to Christmas. As an appointment for a show, many users are looking to the 13th of December, as AMD announces new details about its main Zen processors.


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Interesting is a leased presentation film with benchmark results of a Radeon Pro 490 in comparison with a Geforce GTX 1070. In it, the lower clocked AMD card Nvidia's Pascal chip, with three passes in the 3D Mark, by values ​​of 5 to 13 percent. Especially in the DirectX 12 benchmark scene "Time Spy", the Radeon Pro 490 is typical for current AMD graphics cards. However, it is not known on which system the benchmark took place. You also have to keep in the back of your head that the information of the alleged insider is not confirmed.


So we think that a Radeon RX 490 could beat a Geforce GTX 1070 if we use the alleged results of the Pro version. The performance level could approach a GTX 1080. The price is AMD between GTX 1070 and 1080 orientate. That would mean between current market prices between 400 and 700 euros. We will keep you up to date.