Leaked benchmarks for AMD Radeon RX 480 hits minimum VR spec for $199

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shikamaru317 said:

JEMC said:

The listing of the card is one thing, the rumor about it being a dual GPU card is another.

The RX 490 will come, we all know it, so it's understandable that not only AMD but also its partners prepare its sites and marketing plans for their launch. But that doesn't give the dual GPU rumor any more credibility.

Now, what can the 490 be? I have no idea, but I hope it's not a dual GPU solution.

Same here. 490 needs to be able to compete against the 1070 in the $350-$400 range, and while a dual 480 card would be able to match the 1070 based on 480 Crossfire benchmarks, it would also likely cost more than the 1070 and use nearly double the power, not to mention the micro-stuttering issues you get in some games with Crossfire, and the fact that some games (such as Rise of the Tomb Raider) currently don't support Crossfire at all.

I know our discussion is a few days old, but I've realized something that may refute the idea that the 490 is a dual GPU card with Polaris 10 chips.

And it comes from AMD's new naming scheme, and the slide that came with it:

Realize that the tier number gets determined by the memory controller:

9: >256bit
8 - 7: 256bit
6 - 5: 128bit
4: 64bit

An hypothetical 2x480 GPUs card will still have the same 256bit controllers so, by AMD's own rule, it couldn't be named RX 490. If anything, it could be the RX 480X2.