Amd rx 490 at the height of the gtx 1080 in new benchmark

More and more information is what is leaking about the RX 490, the next AMD graphics card that is shaping up to be the first of the new VEGA architecture (although this cannot yet be assured) and that will compete with the high-end of Nvidia.

AMD wants to stand up to Nvidia in the high-end

Today we have new benchmarks for the RX 490, which confirms what we were talking about in another article, clearly outperforms the Nvidia GTX 1070 and approaches the performance of the GTX 1080.

The tests were carried out with the Ashes or Singularity video game in its two facets, for DirectX 11 and DirectX 12. For the tests, an Intel Core i7 5930K processor (6 cores) and 32GB of RAM were used. The graphic is not yet recognized as such and appears with the name 687F: C1.

RX 490 in DirectX 11

RX 490 in DirectX 12

In the results it can be seen that the RX 490 achieves 8400 points with the game running at 1080. This score is in the range of what a GTX 1080 achieves under DirectX 12. In addition, it seems that the graphics still have room for improvement via software, since on November 30 the score had been 6900 points. The benchmark results have already been deleted but that did not prevent them from being made public.

When the doubts about performance seem to be dissipating and the RX 490 will compete, now if, with the high-end cards from Nvidia, the doubts about which architecture it belongs to are still latent. Is the RX 490 a Dual graphics based on Polaris 10 or does it belong to VEGA as a mono-GPU graphics? Will it use HBM2 or GDDR5X memory? Questions to be answered in the coming weeks.