AMD may finally be prepping a Radeon RX 590 graphics card

A new AMD graphics card ID has been spotted in a recent Linux kernel patch - a previously unseen Polaris 10-based PCI ID - with the enigmatic title 0x6FDF. There’s a good chance that this is either a fresh rebrand of an existing Polaris GPU, or AMD is going to release an updated version of its mainstream graphics architecture. And that means we might finally be seeing an RX 590 some two years after the first Polaris GPUs launched. There was always speculation that AMD would launch higher-end versions of its Polaris GPUs, partly because at the 2016 launch of Polaris indicated to us the naming scheme for the new graphics cards was set to house a top-tier RX 490 sitting above the RX 480 and RX 470 cards. Though it was never used. That, and the fact that AMD almost did release the RX 490, except not for the PC, but effectively dropped it into the Microsoft Xbox One X. Now, the Scorpio GPU inside the Xbox One X isn’t exactly identical to a desktop Polaris chip, but it’s using the same GCN 4.0 tech and sports 40 GCN 4.0 Compute Units (CUs) as opposed to the 36 similar CUs used in the RX 480 and RX 580.

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