Thursday, November 11th 2010
Sapphire HD 5550 Rebranded to HD 6390 for Russian Market
After the Radeon HD 6800 series, the rest of AMD's Northern Islands family of GPUs seem to be taking their own sweet time making it to the market. With the HD 6900 series almost certain to be off its November 22 launch date, lower-end GPUs slated for early 2011 are still far away. Meanwhile Sapphire reportedly took the opportunity to rebrand the existing "Redwood" based Radeon HD 5550 to "Radeon HD 6390", in a bid to make some monies in Russia.
The Radeon HD 6300, at least the HD 6350, HD 6370 are reserved for an upcoming GPU codenamed "Caicos", its AMD reference board even made it through a casual photo-session. The HD 5550 and HD 6390 were found to have the same device IDs. An older version of GPU Caps Viewer detects it as HD 5550, while the latest version sees it as HD 6390. The HD 5550 is based on the 40 nm "Redwood" GPU, it has 320 out of 400 stream processors enabled, and a 128-bit wide memory interface to typically connect to GDDR3 memory. Some premium models also feature GDDR5 memory.
Source:
Geeks 3D
The Radeon HD 6300, at least the HD 6350, HD 6370 are reserved for an upcoming GPU codenamed "Caicos", its AMD reference board even made it through a casual photo-session. The HD 5550 and HD 6390 were found to have the same device IDs. An older version of GPU Caps Viewer detects it as HD 5550, while the latest version sees it as HD 6390. The HD 5550 is based on the 40 nm "Redwood" GPU, it has 320 out of 400 stream processors enabled, and a 128-bit wide memory interface to typically connect to GDDR3 memory. Some premium models also feature GDDR5 memory.
62 Comments on Sapphire HD 5550 Rebranded to HD 6390 for Russian Market
add to the smileys a Trollface pleaseee :D :slap:
its down 5500 to 6390 this is a big mess ati is doing with the names
I think you are confused, 68** series is to replace the mid-range segment where the 57** was before it! they are not rebadged 57** series cards.
And least the 68xx are a proper upgrade compared to what Nvidia are doing
rly!
1) is Sapphire, not AMD
2) only for Russian Market
Saludos!
... sorry, couldn't help it...
Are they saying russian people will buy it now it has a different name. It just doesn't make any sense why.
And DrPepper, we cant be posting right after each other. Avatar wars!
This is a strange, strange development. Surely Sapphire would be required under contract with AMD to name the cards they produce correctly? Would they even bother doing this without AMD's approval for the few extra $$ they might get?
Makes me wonder whether it's actually some dodgy businessman re-badging them himself - without Sapphire or AMD's knowledge.
Back in the days of the union, Americans gave pissy Pepsi in exchange for pristine Stolichnaya vodka.
I still can't see the point of doing this kind of thing for one particular market. Seems like more effort than it's worth.
We gave China secret nuclear technology in exchange for lead-tainted baby toys and poisonous pet food. That has to count for something !! lol
NVIDIA disappointed big time with gt 430 priced 80$ with no other low card in the
4xx series.