AMD Radeon RX 490 Vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080: Vega Architecture-Based Graphics Card Comparable With GTX 1080 [Video]

By Harsh Soni

No one is certain as to the architecture of AMD Radeon RX 490. But we know one thing for sure that the performance of the AMD card is pretty much comparable with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080. The only thing we don't know until now is the price of AMD Radeon RX 490.

The result of a still unknown graphics card, identified as Device ID 687F:C1, has undergone benchmarking via Ashes of the Singularity website early in this month still puzzles a lot of tech analysts.

While there seems to be inconsistency based on the result compared to the rumored specifications, which are listed below, there is one thing many analysts agreed on, and that is this still unknown graphics card is comparable to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080.

According to VideoCardz, the latest graphics card is much faster than Radeon RX 480 saying that the performance is comparable to that of GeForce GTX 1080. The new graphics card is also likely to have just one processor. If this really is Radeon RX 490, then it would dismiss a previous rumor that it would be powered by Dual-Polaris 10 as the benchmark system that can easily detect whether it's a single, or dual processor, even when the graphics card is unknown.

Another fact is that Polaris architecture has been here away for months now and its configuration and digital signature are more or less known to AOTS database. Thus, the test results could have mentioned a dual-Polaris 10 configuration of the graphics card.

Based on the latest update here are the specifications of AMD Radeon RX 490:

Overview-

Card Status: Unreleased

Manufacturer: AMD

Release: 1H 20174

Graphic Processing Unit-

GPU: 14nm Vega 10

Cores: TMUs : ROPs: 4096 : 256 : 64

Clock Speed-

Base Clock: 1550 MHz

Memory Clock While Effective: 250 (1000) MHz

Computing Power FP32: 12,698 GFLOPS