As we draw closer to the launch date, more rumors regarding AMD's upcoming Polaris GPU-based Radeon R9 400 series graphics cards start to appear.

The recent information suggest that the R9 490 could end up with 2304 Stream Processors and up to 8GB of memory on a 256-bit memory interface. The type of memory is still unclear as it might end up with both standard GDDR5 memory as well as the new GDDR5X memory.

In case you missed it, Polaris GPUs are based on 14nm FinFET manufacturing process and should offer both significant performance improvements as well as power efficiency.

The latest information come from a SiSoft entry, which suggest that the Polaris 10 chip, expected to be the heart of the Radeon R9 490 or R9 480, and it is a cut-down version named Ellesmere Pro, which means that we will also see a fully-enabled chip, Ellesmere XT, which could end up to be a R9 490X.

During its Capsaicin event, AMD has revealed that Polaris 11 and Polaris 10 GPUs should be the fastest and most power efficient GPUs up to date and we already seen some teasers where the Polaris 10 GPU capable of running Hitman at 60+ fps, Ultra settings and 1440p resolution.

First Polaris GPU-based graphics cards are expected to be released in mid-2016 and we are certainly looking forward to it. With Nvidia gearing up to show its Pascal-based graphics cards at GTC 2016 event in April, graphics card market will certainly get interesting during this summer.





Source: Wccftech.com.