The excitement over the release of AMD's (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.) GPU Radeon RX 490 was doubled after the released of a leaked benchmark. AMD planned to host New Horizon event that is set to take place next week, December 13. The said event will particularly feature the new Pro 490 graphic cards, motherboards, CPUs together with their anticipated Radeon RX 490.

Radeon RX 490 scored amazingly high performance obtaining 8400 points. The scoring was based on the DirectX 11 and X12 modes of the game "Ashes of Singularity." The benchmark result is reportedly found in the same zone with NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080. According to Guru 3D, the hardware ID 687F:C1 is indeed an AMD and the device ID found to be close to Polaris, a lot better and faster than Radeon RX 480, The Christan Times has reported.

Speculations suggest that AMD's Radeon RX 490 is getting 8GB HBM2 memory and be paired with 4096 shader processors. The shader processors are just the multiplication between the 64 Compute Unites and the 64 shader processors per cluster and the GPU will be teamed up with 8 or a 16 GB HBM2 memory at a bandwidth of 512 GB/s memory.

The AMD Radeon RX 490 is expecting to support any 4k resolutions and such a better choice when it comes to a Virtual Reality Apps. Reports also suggest that the RX 490 will be based on the architecture of Vega 10 and a dual-GPU Polaris 10 is not really impossible.

According to Digital Trends, the Radeon GPU is determined to deliver a compute performance of 24TFlops of half-precision and also a 12 TFLOPS of single precision. And one of its biggest rivals would be the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080. AMD will introduce the Radeon RX 490 with Summit Ridge CPUs and the AM4X370 Zen Motherboard next week, December 13, 2016. All reports are just based on the benchmark score and there still no official statement from the AMD Inc,


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