Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
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The RX 490 is a dual GPU graphics card ... All of these things indicate to us that we are looking at a dual GPU solution, probably one based on a full version of Polaris 10...
A ton of "speculation" and a small amount of fact-based "analysis" went into this Rumor.
Could be true. AMD marketing could use a competitor to 1080 (while we await Vega). A dual-GPU RX-490 could compete directly on FPS in benchmarks and some games. As we know, such a card could cost much less than 1080. Moreover, DX12 is implementing support for CrossFire and SLI (which it did not initially).
But, unless AMD is going to try some of its Navi technology sooner than expected, its still just CrossFireX. FWIW, Navi is speculated/rumored to combine multiple GPUs on one card -- such that they act like one GPU (no CrossFire or SLI problems).
