AMD Radeon RX 490 Release Date: Official reveal happening at New Horizon Event next week; Here's what to expect

Advanced Micro devices Inc. (AMD), the tech giant has a well planned New Horizon event next week. The event is expected to be witnessed with amazingly made new CPUs and motherboards, also including the AMD Radeon RX 490. And these items are likely to pop-up in the tech market during the first quarter of 2017.

According to WCCFTech, the Radeon RX 490 is found to have scored an amazing performance hitting up to 8400 points. The online benchmark database showed the score and it was the same place where Radeon RX-480 was seen with some numbers.

The score is based on the DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 modes of the game title Ashes of the Singularity. The benchmark result is reported to be found in the same zone with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080.

As per the report of Guru3D, AMD Radeon RX 490 was spotted with a codename 687F: C1. The report claims that the hardware ID 687F:C1 spotted is definitely a AMD and the device ID is found to be very close to Polaris. Also, reports claims that the results of AMD Radeon RX 490 are found to be faster, much faster than the Radeon RX 480.

AMD Radeon RX 490 is rumored to get 8GB HBM2 memory and would be based on a GPU with 4096 shader processors. The 4096 shader processors is nothing but the multiplication between 64 Compute Units and 64 shader processors per cluster. It is also, reported that the GPU will be paired with either 8 or 16 GB HBM2 memory at 512 GB/s memory bandwidth.

AMD's Radeon GPU is also speculated to deliver a compute performance of 24 TFlops of half-precision, as well as 12 TFLOPS single-precision. One of the finest rivals for the Radeon RX 490 will be the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080.

There are some hints that AMD will release a PRO version of the RX 490 for the Mac and MacBook Pro lineup that are expected to be released in the coming future. AMD is speculated to introduce the Radeon RX 490 with the Summit Ridge CPUs and AM4 X370 Zen Motherboard on December 13, 2016.

However, no official statement has come from the AMD Inc. on AMD Radeon RX 490 and indeed the reports are based on the benchmark scores and rumors. Stay tuned for more updates.