Amd radeon r9 490x and r9 490 will arrive in June

AMD would be planning an offensive in June with the launch of its Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 graphics cards, both based on the promising Polaris architecture that promises an enormous level of energy efficiency. Polaris will be succeeded in 2017 by Vega.

AMD Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 will arrive in June to stand up to Nvidia

According to HardwareBattle, who are quite accurate about making predictions about AMD, Sunnyvale's would be preparing for the launch of their new Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 cards in June.

The AMD Radeon R400 graphics cards will be based on Polaris 10 and their maximum exponents Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 would arrive quite soon, in the month of June to face the new Pascal-based Nvidia GeForce. Radeon R9 490X and Radeon R9 490 will be based on Polaris 10 so there won't be any Fiji rehash at least for now, leaving two possibilities open:

- Fiji is more powerful than Polaris 10 and the Radeon Fury X will continue to be the Reds' most powerful option. If this is true, Polaris will focus on offering enormous energy efficiency with which we would have cards as powerful as the current ones but with much less energy consumption.

- Polaris 10 is more powerful than Fiji, and the Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 become AMD's most powerful options. This opens the possibility that we will see a new silicon later based on Polaris to succeed the Fury X or simply that AMD waits for Vega to succeed it.

What seems clear is that Polaris 10 and the Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 arrive to compete against the GeForce GTX 1080/1070, cards that we do not know for sure if they will be faster than the GeForce GTX 980Ti based on the Maxwell GM200 silicon. The logical thing would be that the new cards from both Nvidia and AMD are faster than the current ones, but we should not be surprised if they want to offer the eyedropper improvements to get more money from users.

Source: videocardz