Thursday, January 5th 2012
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AMD Slips Out Radeon HD 7670 to OEMs
Without making any noise, AMD rolled out an OEM-exclusive graphics card model, the Radeon HD 7670. This GPU is completely identical to the previous-generation Radeon HD 6670, making it a rebrand. It has identical specifications to the 40 nm Turks GPU, which drives the retail HD 6670, with 480 VLIW5 stream processors, a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 512 MB or 1 GB of memory, 24 TMUs, 8 ROPs, and clock speeds of 800 MHz core, and 4.00 GHz memory. This GPU was featured on some of HP's desktop PC products. The product page of this OEM-only GPU can be found here.
Source:
Anandtech
52 Comments on AMD Slips Out Radeon HD 7670 to OEMs
(Let's hope I can upgrade this century... LOL)
My single purchase won't make a drop in the ocean. But it's the principle.
I myself never bother with midrange cards anymore as I am always unsure of how old the tech actually is.. And it makes it very difficult to pick out a laptop/desktop for friends asking for advice on new machines.
Very lame AMD... :mad:
They're just GPUs with meh performance.
It does nothing other than using a new name for old tech and thus is misleading to customers.
Let the 6670 be the 6670, and don't make a 7670 model if you're too lazy, AMD. There are too many cards per "generation" as it is, which is already confusing customers (at least some people I know of), and if they are actually older tech, that's just plain wrong.
There should be lawsuits for this stuff.
But yes, I agree with you, and have since before the nVidia rebrands came to light. It is pointless in today's economy to design mid-range chips when rebranding the higher end chips from last generation give you essentially the same thing.