AMD Vega 10 and Polaris 12 Chips Pass RRA Certification; Radeon RX 490 4K VR Flagship Release To Follow Suit [Video]
The RX 490 coming out soon is seemingly confirmed by the news that came from South Korea. The country's National Radio Research Agency (RRA) has certified the two sets of graphics cards from AMD. The certification identified to belong with the Vega 10 and Polaris 12 chips. It is also assumed that these cards will be that of the mid-range RX 460 and 470, which will certainly hit the market in the early months of 2017.
Any silicon based electronics must receive RRA stamp of approval before it's allowed to be a consumer product. The certification also marks the final stages of the design of a particular GPU, after that no changes can be made after this certification is received.
According to WccF Tech, there are two sources of consistent and authentic information on upcoming graphics cards; one is the Zauba shipping database and the RRA certification notifications.
RRA tweets about every major chip that passes certification and from this we can usually get a fairly accurate idea of whether a particular GPU exist or not.
The RX 490 will be AMD's 4K and VR ready flagship that will challenging on the Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080, albeit from a lower price-point. The existing Polaris based lineup currently maxes out at the Polaris 10 based RX 480, which is roughly equivalent to the GTX 1060 in terms of graphical performance. In other words, the RX 490 flagship will be more like the crown jewel in AMD's RX family line.
According to AMD, Polaris 10 is the largest 14nm FinFET GPU that is available right now and that raises questions what we can expect from the RX 490.
AMD's RX 490 will have the 4K resolution and be the go-to graphics card for VR. It will have a bus width greater than 256 bits and based on either a dual-GPU Polaris 10 design or Vega 10.
Following are the said certification from RRA-
SIP-REM-ATI-102-D04001 - This GPU was granted the certification on November 17, 2016, and based on its nomenclature, we can safely assume that it is a Vega-based GPU. Also, judging by the fact that it is one of the first RRA certified variants of the Vega architecture; it is likely to be the Vega 10.
MSIP-REM-ATI-102-C90603 - The second GPU comes with a codename that we cannot recall seeing anywhere else in the past. It is more likely to be the Polaris 12 GP with four sub-variants (as listed in the certification). It was awarded RRA certification on December 9, 2016.
