Thursday, January 20th 2011
AMD Slips in Radeon HD 6770 and HD 6750 for OEMs
AMD implemented its plans to rebrand Radeon HD 5700 series to HD 6700 series, by listing up Radeon HD 6770 and HD 6750 on its website. For now, it's available only to OEMs. There are no changes between the 5700 and 6700 as far as specifications go, except HDMI 1.4a support. At most, you can see a different-looking cooler shroud on the reference-design graphics cards. Other than that, they're the same. The HD 6770 is based on the 40 nm Juniper silicon, with 800 VLIW5 stream processors, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 128-bit wide memory interface. The HD 6750 on the other hand has 720 stream processors. There's no information at present on when (or if) AMD plans to release this to the consumer market.
40 Comments on AMD Slips in Radeon HD 6770 and HD 6750 for OEMs
I think Nvidia was smart having disabled parts of pretty much all fermi 4xx cards as it left them more room for improvement on the 5xx cards
I would be happier with this if they bumped the core and memory speeds so there was some kind of improvement apart from HDMI 1.4a although i do think this is mainly about OEM's not getting anything truly new in the lower end until the 7xxx cards and I'm sure they need to be able to say things like "featuring the brand new high powered AMD 6770 graphics" or some other marketing lie to hype products.... darn marketing departments :laugh:
I think people will be less annoyed by this than Nvidia's re branding in recent years as it's just one core that hopefully will be OEM only instead of a full line of products for all markets.
but this was the ultimate rebrand www.rage3d.com/articles/amd_rebranding_the_death_of_ati/
I bet if I flashed some cash in your faces you would change your minds too.
Lets hope they update the thingies that limited eyefinity as well, so that like the other 6k cards they can run DVI+DVI+HDMI simultaneously.
zero performance changes, but minor feature updates. thats an improvement over nvidia, who didnt change anything.
The thing I do like however, is the fact that at least it's not advertised on the site as "New", take a look at number 7, they are pretty clear what it is and credit to them for that at least.
www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/amd-radeon-hd-6000/hd-6770/Pages/amd-radeon-hd-6770-overview.aspx#4
On a more productive note though, at least they are giving a little recognision to us all giving them dirty looks over this and are trying to keep this relatively noob-safe by limiting it to OEMs. I don't think the OEMs will be as forgiving though.:pimp:
However if AMD sells this directly to the unsuspecting sheople, then that will earn an unspeakable shame worthy of condemnation and reproach, and teasing their dogs everytime you pass the AMD boards' homes... even if everyone else is doing it too/already.:roll:
/I'll let you guys decipher where there's sarcasm for yourselves, lol
The 67xx series are obviously the new entry level cards and should/will be priced accordingly. :cool: This will seriously raise the bar on the price/ performance ratio.
Its good to see Amd making waves again. 2gb GPUs :rockout: Fusion APUs :rockout: GTX 280 performance for <$100 :rockout::rockout:
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