According to the latest rumor report, it appears that AMD might launch its Radeon R9 490X and Radeon R9 490 graphics card based on Polaris 10 GPU in late June.

According to a fresh rumor coming from HWBattle site, which is spotted by Videocardz.com, AMD is expected to launch two new Radeon graphics card based on GCN 4.0 architecture in late June, the Radeon R9 490X and the Radeon R9 490.

Both of these graphics cards will be based on 14nm FinFET manufacturing process from Global Foundries and AMD's new Polaris 10 GPU with Graphics Core Next 4.0 architecture. AMD already demonstrated similar GPU during its Capsaicin event last month and it does come as a surprise that AMD will not use its Radeon Fury naming scheme but rather stick to standard Radeon 400 series.

Both AMD and Nvidia are expected to launch their next-generation consumer graphics cards in June and although we might see announcements at Computex 2016 show, which kicks off on May 31st, the rumor suggest that this will be a paper launch, while those same graphics cards could be expected on retail/e-tail shelves in late June.

AMD has promised great things with its Polaris GPU architecture, including impressive performance per Watt and performance per buck improvements.

Hopefully, we will see impressive GPU improvements from both Nvidia and AMD in June as the hard competition could drive the prices down, which is always good for a consumer.



Source: Videocardz.com.