Rumor: AMD Radeon 400 graphics cards with Polaris GPU to hit the market at the end of June

By admin On Apr 7, 2016

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AMD may release its first video cards with Polaris GPU at the end of June. It would be the R9 490X and R9 490. According to the rumor, the new video cards will be shown for the first time during the Computex tech fair at the end of May.

Probably the video cards in the Radeon R9 400 series get gddr5x memory. Micron previously indicated that the first GPUs that use that memory will appear in the spring of 2016. The rumor that the cards will appear at the end of June comes from HardwareBattle, VideoCardz writes. Earlier that site brought out the rumor that AMD’s new GPUs will be named Polaris and that turned out to be true.

The video cards would be called AMD Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 and use the Polaris 10-gpu, which is intended for high-end video cards. Polaris 11, for lower-ranked cards, would not be released until later.

The manufacturer itself recently announced that Polaris cards would be released in the middle of this year by showing a roadmap during the Capsaicin event at the Game Developer Conference in mid-March.

However, AMD itself has not yet given any details about the naming of the new cards. Also not sure what memory type the cards will get. However, the roadmap makes it clear that hbm2 will only appear with the next generation of Vega GPUs, early 2017.

The AMD Radeon R9 490X and 490 are likely to be the counterparts to the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. These are also models that do not officially exist yet, but are rumored to be announced in May.

Nvidia presented its GP100 GPU on Tuesday. Although the manufacturer has only shown a variant for GPU computing in servers, this Pascal chip will also form the basis for the GeForce cards for gamers. Presumably, however, it is a modified chip that uses gddr5x memory instead of hbm2.

The Computex will start in Taiwan on May 31. This fair will probably set the stage for the introduction of new video cards from the red and green camp. The actual market introduction usually follows later; the AMD cards are rumored to go on sale a month later.