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

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Pemalite said:

 

JEMC said:

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.

AMD *could* also launch two dual-GPU cards.
With the Radeon 3000 series and 4000 series AMD actually released multiple x2 cards one based on their fastest GPU and the other on a slower GPU. Aka. Radeon 3850 X2 and 3870 X2 and 4850 X2 and 4870 X2. - Could be a return to form and we end up with both.

There's no need to go that back, AMD launched the 295X2 with two Hawaii XT chips and this year they finally launched the Radeon Pro Duo with two Fiji XT processors.

A dual Polaris card won't surprise anyone, it's only the name that's open to discussion. RX 480X2? RX 480 Duo?