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Talking about videocards, there are two new rumors from Hardware Battle regarding AMD:

AMD Radeon Pro Duo launches on April 26th

http://videocardz.com/58903/amd-radeon-pro-duo-launches-on-april-26th

Radeon Pro Duo, the mixture of Radeon and FirePro series will launch later this month. According to HardwareBattle, Radeon Pro Duo will be available on April 26th, however review embargo may lift sooner. So in case you were wondering how does Pro Duo perform in games, you will be given extra time to consider spending $1499 on Fiji-based product before it reaches the shelves.

 

AMD Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 launches in June

http://videocardz.com/58894/amd-radeon-r9-490x-and-r9-490-launches-in-june

AMD’s Radeon 400 series will launch in June. The preview may happen at Computex which starts end of May. However the official launch will take place end of June. So we are probably looking at paper launch at Computex and hard launch with reviews later that month.

What’s more, Radeon R9 490X will be based on Polaris 10. It means there won’t be any Fiji to R9 490 rebranding. This leaves us with two possible scenarios. Either Fury X is faster than Radeon R9 490(X) Polaris 10, and Fury series will be offered alongside Radeon R9 490 line till Vega 10 becomes available, or Fury X is slower than Polaris 10 and it may be used for Radeon R9 480 series instead.

If the 480 series consist of Fiji rebrands (I kind of doubt it), I hope they do some tweaks and add a few extra ROPs, because Fiji performs bad at "low" resolutions.