Wednesday, January 13th 2010
AMD Cedar Reference Design Board Pictured
AMD's entry-level graphics processor in its DirectX 11 compliant generation, the Radeon HD 5000 series is codenamed "Cedar". This GPU is expected to be half as powerful as the "Redwood" GPU, with an expected 200 stream processors, 64-bit GDDR5/GDDR3 memory interface, and DirectX 11 compliance. It will make for two initial product SKUs: the Radeon HD 5400 series (probably Cedar with GDDR3 memory), and Radeon HD 5500 series (probably Cedar with GDDR5 memory). There are three models slated for release later this month: Radeon HD 5450, Radeon HD 5550, and Radeon HD 5570.
A low-profile reference design engineering sample's picture made it to our friends at Arab Hardware. The picture reveals a low-profile design which is slightly longer than the PCI-Express interface itself, keeps the black PCB color theme for the HD 5000 series going, and uses a tiny GPU cooler. DVI-D and DisplayPort connectors are located on the card, while a full-height bracket can expand the connectivity with a D-Sub connector. Products based on the Cedar GPU are expected to be positioned well within the $100 mark, and aimed at media-centric home users and full-time HTPCs.
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Arab Hardware Forums
A low-profile reference design engineering sample's picture made it to our friends at Arab Hardware. The picture reveals a low-profile design which is slightly longer than the PCI-Express interface itself, keeps the black PCB color theme for the HD 5000 series going, and uses a tiny GPU cooler. DVI-D and DisplayPort connectors are located on the card, while a full-height bracket can expand the connectivity with a D-Sub connector. Products based on the Cedar GPU are expected to be positioned well within the $100 mark, and aimed at media-centric home users and full-time HTPCs.
42 Comments on AMD Cedar Reference Design Board Pictured
The next gen should be "stars". :-p
www.arabhardware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=153600
:)
I would have expected something like 120 SP.
Second of all, 5500 is Redwood with GDDR3. It's mobility 5730/5650, but I expect them to be HD5570/5550 on the desktop. There were reports a couple weeks back about a 5570 with exactly Mobility 5730 spec, and the parts rumored to be coming are 5570 and 5550, both with Redwood-PRO monikers, so that makes the most sense. 5570 will have the same clock speed as 5650 with half the bandwidth because of GDDR3.
Basically, look at the mobility series and subtract 100, since Juniper (Desktop HD5700) replaces Cypress as the 5800 series in the Mobility lineup. Cedar/Park are 5400 series on both. (70-GDDR5 and 750mhz, 50-GDDR3 and 675mhz, 30-GDDR3 and 550mhz).
At any rate, AMD really blew their load with the mobility launch since you can extrapolate the desktop counterparts., but that doesn't make the products any less cool.
At least we got early specs and pics of the chips, without having to wait til launch. :)
Redwood/Madison
Desktop HD5600/HD5500/Mobility HD5700/5650
Cedar/Park
5400 series
if it has a GDDR5 @ 64 bit memory bus you get 23 gb/sec :) which is rather fast for such a low end card!
Thanks mena :)
And yeah, it seems like it could be a high end HTPC card - low profile, small, low heat (could work well passive) - and its got VGA, DVI, displayport, and via DVI-HDMI, HDMI. Since its ATI, we also know its gunna have audio on the HDMI and displayport as well.
edit: hell, this thing could do non-gaming eyefinity as well - how many programmers/codemonkies would love cheap triple monitor support?
* Pictures was not working because TPU alert us that the card is currently under NDA and now we deleted the entire thread.
Thank you for your understanding.