So where is RX490? Did they just completely skip over it in favor

>>60257335
>RX490
>RX590

never, ever. we vega now. well, not now now, but when they release them

Because the *90 cards are top end cards. Polaris topped off at mid-end. There was no 490 because AMD never made a high end 400 series card. Is this confusing?

>>60257387
Vega is just the architecture code name like Polaris or Fiji.
So far we dont really know what AMD's plans for naming schemes is.
It is however stupid that they refreshed polaris to make room for a new GPU architecture which will fit into the 500s lineup in such a way that would have worked with the 400s as well and we're STILL waiting for it.
They could have just thrown the 500 series out as the currently inexplicably unused X series cards and just had a 480X, 470X, etc. but they chose not to do that and it's kind of dumb.

they should do my idea of naming them like cars. numbers confuse consumers

>>60257789
The numbers are fine they just need to be more consistent.

Nothing will beat nvidia's revised naming system;

{Card generation}[relative performance index]

The numbers don't actually MEAN anything on AMD cards, on an NVIDIA card the number is almost all you need to know in order to understand the capabilities of it.