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

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shikamaru317 said:

More signs pointing to RX 490 releasing this year. Question is, is it a dual 480 card, a secret Polaris chip, or the first of the Vega chips? Tweaktown and WCCF Tech both seem to think it's a dual GPU card.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52997/amd-radeon-rx-490-teased-higher-end-card-launching-late-year/index.html
http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-490-mystery-4k-gaming-gpu-listed-sapphire/

I wouldn't put too much faith in that Tweaktown article, even more so containing bits like this one: "We know from AMD's revised naming system for the Radeon series that that the RX 490 will feature a 256-bit memory bus and will be aimed at 4K and VR gaming."

Looking at AMD's new naming slide, any 490 card will have a higher than 256bit bus memory, not a 256bit bus one. They are clearly writing their thoughts/guesses as facts.

 

Now, on another note:

SK Hynix to Ship HBM2 Memory by Q3-2016

https://www.techpowerup.com/224149/sk-hynix-to-ship-hbm2-memory-by-q3-2016

Korean memory and NAND flash giant SK Hynix announced that it will have HBM2 memory ready for order within Q3-2016 (July-September). The company will ship 4 gigabyte HBM2 stacks in the 4 Hi-stack (4-die stack) form-factor, in two speeds - 2.00 Gbps (256 GB/s per stack), bearing model number H5VR32ESM4H-20C; and 1.60 Gbps (204 GB/s per stack), bearing model number H5VR32ESM4H-12C. With four such stacks, graphics cards over a 4096-bit HBM2 interface, graphics cards with 16 GB of total memory can be built.