Friday, November 18th 2011

Several Entry-thru-mid Radeon HD 7000 GPUs Mere Rebrands

Want a new graphics card this shopping season? Is news of Radeon HD 7000 series arriving late this year or early next year holding you back from purchasing current-generation? Don't let it, go grab that graphics card you had your eyes on. Fairly reliable sources point out that a bulk of Radeon HD 7000 series graphics cards will be based on rebranded current and previous generation GPUs. This bulk mostly spans across the entry-thru-mid range of the product lineup. Familiar GPU codenames such as Cedar, Caicos, and Turks, make a comeback with Radeon HD 7300 series, HD 7400 series, HD 7500 series, and HD 7600 series.

Moving up the ladder, the source postulates two possibilities for Radeon HD 7700 series. First, and more plausible, is that the series is based on Juniper (a hop across two previous generations!); the second is that these make use of rechristened GPUs from a slightly higher market position from the previous generation. Perhaps Barts, perhaps even highly crippled Cayman. The only real next-generation GPU is codenamed "Tahiti", but we're hearing that graphics cards based on it are said to not follow the Radeon HD 7000 series nomenclature altogether.
Source: ChipHell
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66 Comments on Several Entry-thru-mid Radeon HD 7000 GPUs Mere Rebrands

#51
micropage7
is that interesting and ironic?
some newer cards is the old one, just rebrand it add new hsf and done.
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#52
ensabrenoir
Bottom line.....
1.research don't depend on marketing
2.get what makes you happy- don't settle for less cause everytime something new comes out ur regrettin
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#53
ucanmandaa
you can add Geforce 2 > Geforce 4 mx to that list.
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#54
sneekypeet
not-so supermod
Also the 2900 > 3870 ;)
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#55
Activeduke
So my old x1650 Pro was just an x1300 xt.. Knew there was something wrong with the card performance wise. 512mb mega slow ddr2 ram.. God i hated that card:banghead:
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#56
Shihab
*Sighs*


Disclaimer: I'm referring to AMD, Retailers that will market the products as 32nm, and some unfortunate poor bastards who will buy the cards thinking the'll get something entirely new. Not anyone in this thread >_>
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#57
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
newtekie1Oh yeah, I totally forgot about the ATi rebrands back in the R100 days...

The Radeon SDR became the Radeon 7200, and the Radeon VE became the Radeon 7000.
7000/7200 is still produced today for PCI
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#58
Xaser04
Meh, bring on the HD7970 ASAP please.

3560x1920 is quite straining on a single HD6970.

I wonder if a HD5670 can max out BF3 at this resolution......:p
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#59
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I would like to point out HD 6670 6650 is a VLIW5 architecture and are different from the information we have on HD 7670 which is a more advanced VLIW4 architecture.

Furthermore, the core count on HD 7670 are 768 stream processor cores and is on TSMC 28nm HPL node, the HD 6670 however, have 480 stream processor cores and is on TSMC 40 nm node.


Right off the bat that graph from chiphell have misleading/missing info on a number of upcoming HD 7000 series of gpu.


I would like Mr Btarunr of TechPowerUp to review these indisputable discrepancies. This so call graph from a certain user on Chiphell is nothing but to spread fud.
#60
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
Can you please point me to the source of that table?
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#62
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
I think AMD should stick with GDDR5 for now because of whats goin on with the Rambus Corp.
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#64
Unregistered
From what info is available, AMD use a desktop version chip and lower it's clocks and vcore and use it a a mobile version.

Ex: desktop : Radeon HD 6670 with 480 Stream Processing Units @ 800 MHz
Mobile : AMD Radeon HD 6770M 480@675 / 725MHz to Radeon HD 6630M 480@485MHz

Same with HD 5000 series
Desktop: Radeon HD 5570 400@650Mhz
Mobile : Mobility Radeon HD 5770 400@650MHz to Mobility Radeon HD 5650 400@450-650MHz

Same architecture, same node for mobile and desktop version.

It is within reason to assume that if the mobile HD 7000 series use TSMC 28nm HPL node then the desktop big brother also use the same architecture and node. In this case TSMC 28nm HPL, and not a re-brand from the 40nm node.



Edit: Now that I've check that chipHell link. That poster said:
"1, 凡是 H7XXX命名的显卡全部都是马甲"

translation: 1, all the graphics card that are named H7XXX are re-brands.

That statement should reveal the poster's true intentions right there.
#65
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
Tell You the Truth Im not too worried about them. We Will see them when they come out. The sites posting this crap are just trying to get numbers, just like how TV networks are always posting negative bullshit about wuts goin on around the world.
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#66
mamailo
The first documented case of "rebranding" was the change name "Vanta" to "TNT2 M64" because it did not change the pcb; the silicon or anything meaningful.It was just marketing.

Banshee do not count because it was different than a Voodoo 2 or Voodoo rush
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