Unfortunately, I don't have a Sapphire SSC ID, so I cannot verify these myself. That said, a Reddit user by the name of CBwardog found a few extra listings on the company's drop-down menu for products which really shouldn't exist yet. The product name doesn't really have much associated with it, but it does have video RAM and display outputs.
Image Credit: CBwardog on Reddit
According to Sapphire, the Radeon RX 460 will launch in 2GB and 4GB versions, each of which have one HDMI, one DVI, and one DisplayPort connector. The RX 470 will come in 4GB and 8GB versions. The 4GB version of the RX 470 will have HDMI and three DisplayPorts, while the 8GB version of the RX 470 will have two HDMI ports, one DVI port, and two DisplayPort connectors. Lastly, ignoring the RX 480 that we already know about, a “RADEON 490” (which an earlier leak by AMD called the RX 490) will be available in just an 8GB version, with one HDMI and three DisplayPorts.
As always, rumors should be taken with a grain of salt. Also, it is possible that port configuration could be specific to Sapphire, as we've seen AIB partners modify outputs before, but you would think that there would be at least one reference design per model, so, chances are, it should be fairly uniform across vendors.
Reddit as a source for
Reddit as a source for anything is not reliable at all.
Also, RX 490 with GDDR5, and not GDDR5X?
I’m just going to say fake right off the bat, because the full Polaris line up has been shown and AMD has said nothing about anything in between Polaris and Vega, and if I remember correctly Raja tweeted something about Vega being done with pre-production work, and the fact that Vega will be using HBM2 so it can’t be Vega.
Unless AMD has been hiding a GPU from not only consumers, but stock holders and investors alike I’m calling fake from a mile away.
We all know that there is going to be an RX 490, but I don’t think within this year we can expect a release.
what if there is two vega one
what if there is two vega one for GDDR5X and one for HBM2, that makes alot of sense
as polaris 10 is the biggest chip currently, and there is only two polaris
so something like this
Polaris 11 = Radeon RX 460 with 2GB GDDR5
Polaris 10 = Radeon RX 470 with 4GB GDDR5
Polaris 10 = Radeon RX 480 with 8GB GDDR5 256 GB/s 8Gbps
Vega Small = Radeon RX 490 with 8GB GDDR5X 320 GB/s 10gbps
Vega Big = Radeon RX Rage with 8GB HBM2 1024GB/s
I could see AMD sticking with
I could see AMD sticking with a wider bus and GDDR5 rather than jumping to GDDR5x, but it doesn’t seem like they have a larger GPU until Vega, and I don’t think Vega will be marketed as a 490. It will probably be a separate Fury branded part and I doubt that they would make a separate version with a GDDR5 interface. Not entirely impossible to include both though, but very unlikely. The HBM interface takes a lot of pins to route, but it doesn’t actually take much die area if not routed off chip. The unused GDDR5 interface would waste space in the high end part, but with a super high end HBM2 part, you can afford to waste a little space. Do they have Polaris 10 with a wider bus or GDDR5x support maybe? Perhaps the 490 will be Polaris 10 with less thermal restrictions and a faster memory interface. The only other things I can think of are a highly tweaked Fury card marketed as a 490; very unlikely though. It would burn a huge amount of power still and would require some way to work around the 4 GB limit. Althogh it is still unclear if 4 GB is really as much of an issue as it has been made out to be. The other thought would b dual Polaris 10 as a 490; that would put it in the high end price range of >$500 or so.
already
already debunked:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1603915/any-official-polaris-threads-coming-soon/500_50#post_25324112
No, Sapphire simply removed
No, Sapphire simply removed the RX section after it was posted on reddit. A number of users claim to have seen this list.
you sir are correct, users
you sir are correct, users did check it out last night and this morning before sapphire deleted it. Anything I post in regards to this stuff on reddit is only because I know there are enthusiasts out there that love hardware as much as I do. People can believe what they want, there is no point in me wasting my time with falsifying info, I just post what I see. Much like when I posted about a new overclocking tool (which turned out to be wattman) an AMD vet told me about when I happened to be at the right place at the right time. Only time will tell till you see the rx460 470 and 480 variants, but by then everyone will have forgotten I posted this.
sorry didn’t see any such
sorry didn’t see any such claims.
got permalink?
thanks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4rgoz4/look_what_i_found_while_doing_a_sapphire_ticket/d510pqw
thank you.
thank you.
So the 490 isn’t going to be
So the 490 isn’t going to be an HBM-based part, right? So what is it? I haven’t seen anything about a part between Polaris 10 and Vega. I assume Vega will be HBM (1 or 2?) with Fury branding. So I am wondering if they are going to try selling a dual Polaris 10 as a 490 rather than having specific 495×2 style branding. I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing, if that is what they are doing. With the way the market is headed, the software ecosystem needs to support multi-GPU better, just like the CPU market had to support multiple CPUs. Scaling single GPUs is going to get more difficult and more expensive going forward, especially if we are stuck at almost the same process tech for a long time like we were at 28 nm.
No and Vega is the next GCN
No and Vega is the next GCN generation after Polaris! So The RX 490 will probably be the real Polaris 10 top end part once the 14nm process and yields are more mature/better and the CU over provisioning that was originally built into the die to allow for sufficient quantities of RX 480s allows for a higher binned Polaris SKU than the RX 480.
The Polaris 10 die has more CUs than the first release end product(RX 480) was designed to have! And the yield engineers took an actuarial analysis of the dies/wafers coming from the fabrication contractor and that’s what was used to come of with the RX 480’s CU count for the first Polaris 10 based parts released, that and power budgeting on the immature 14nm process node. With time and as the 14nm fab process improves then the yield engineers will take another actuarial analysis of the dies/wafers coming from the fabrication contractor and that will be used to make up the RX 490’s CU count, that and maybe the 14nm process will have better process tweaks with less thermal leakage, etc. So the RX 490 could be clocked higher and still make for better power usage metrics/less heat generated.
Over provisioning is used by all GPU makers, it’s nothing new, and the yield engineers are the ones that decide on what amount of over provisioning is needed for GPUs produced on a new process node(14nm) for the first new products release, and what extra execution resources may be available for any new SKUs once the fab process node improvements/tweaks come online.
I wouldn’t mind a reference
I wouldn’t mind a reference 4GB RX 470.
This will not be power limited, and if it uses the same ref cooler it will also ovreclock better.
So 10% less SP vs the RX 480, but more headroom to reach sustained clock speed in gaming.
I will take a 5% slower card for $50 price reduction…
So AMD, I have $150 ready in my paypal account. Make it happen before I chnage my mind and go Pascal 🙂
But then again, I would need an hdmi to DVI adapter with a 4GB RX 470?
If AMD can get your business,
If AMD can get your business, I would consider that a major step in their turnaround. I hope it happens. I am not being sarcastic. I hope AMD listens.
This must be a typo, as the
This must be a typo, as the part number is the same as the RX480 on their own site.
[URL]http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=4647A08C-25B5-4E68-B291-DEF9837B36A6&lang=eng[/URL]
The site that milked the
The site that milked the power issue for everything it is worth and still as of 1819 CST is the only site that has not bothered to post about the driver fix AMD announced. Sure smells of major league bias to me. I always thought Ryan was fair, but now I get what others have been saying for years. Adblocker now on for pcper as I can see now what it posts are ads, so why view the real ads they also get paid for.
Allyn and Ryan were working
Allyn and Ryan were working on it over the last couple of days, so I was waiting for them. Turns out that they are waiting on something from AMD, so I'll put up the announcement.
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490 is probably a typo. Not
490 is probably a typo. Not coming. AMD will keep selling Furys – if they can sell them anyway – until Vega. They are targeting the market at $100-$300, nothing higher. Next cards are RX 470 and RX 460. After those cards we wait until 2017 for Vega.
Keepin’ the hope alive.
Keepin’ the hope alive.