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.
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52 Comments on AMD Slips Out Radeon HD 7670 to OEMs
But from 8800 GT to 9800 GT there was no change at all. One of the lamest things I've ever seen.
Renaming isn't that lame, anyone should be able to look up specs and reviews regardless of the name, and know what they are buying before they buy it. And really, most of the time, with a rebadge the product that would have had to have been designed from scratch to fall into that name's spot in the line-up would have been very similar(sometimes even worse) than the rebadged card is/was.
If you want to look at the lamest things ever, look at the cards that were released with one specification and then after the reviews were done and the dust from the release settled the specs were crippled without any name change or even a whisper about it. Now that is lame. Because then it makes even doing proper research hard for the average buyer. They can't just look at benchmarks for the card, they have to make sure they are looking at the right card version, if they can even tell. And most of the time, the benchmarks are for the original version of the card and benchmarks for the revised version are very hard to find.
There hasn't been any revolutionary improvement in graphics standards implementation, yet; blame console stagnation.
But they needed to fill in a performance segment in the 7000 series, so rebrand; marketing.
Come on people. Third generation DX11 cards... any improvements are not going to be major performance enhancements, aside from increases due to die shrinks. Because of that, also, rebranding of lower end stuff shouldn't be surprising.
The 8800GTS and 9800GTX were very different cards. The cores were the same, but they were very different cards. And in fact the 9800GT was supposed to be very different from the 8800GT as well, but the AIB Partners forced nVidia to stick with the 8800GT design. The 9800GT was supposed to be Tri-SLI capable and hybrid power capable with a new PCB. But the AIB Partners bitched and moaned and flat out refused to use the new PCB, forcing the 9800GT to turn into nothing more than a rebadge.
techspot says: and reading the links - the only difference is 3 way sli.....
not exactly a `very different card`.
is very different compared to this:
Besides Tri-SLI, the 4+2 PWM of the 9800GTX compared to the 3+1 of the 8800GTS meant the 9800GTX usually hit clock speeds 15-20% higher than the 8800GTS. And there is a very minor addition of the SPD/IF connector to allow audio to be passed through to HDMI.
So, yes, those that actually used the cards and aren't relying on a single article they read for their knowledge will tell you the two are very different cards.
Anyway, a 6670/7670 with 1GB GDDR5 is good for pretty much anything at lower resolutions.
amazing - even TPU says the 8800GTS and 9800GTX are the same card bar tri sli (and cooler design - which GTS cards used different ones as well)
But this time... Why write off this new <75W (no 6-pin) 28Nm out of the mix! A 28Nm of the 6670 DDR5 with a little boost in clocks could've produced a really nice card. I really thought AMD would've use such a card in conjunction with the Trinity APU. Sell (cheap) OEM boxes with APU’s with their design mobo, and then have Hybrid C-F with a 7670 in the aftermarket. Why would AMD miss-out on that scenario? It’s like they caved to OEM’s… for what? It makes no sense!
AMD had that as an Ace in the hole, a upgrade card and that would have Nvidia/Intel sucking big wind. I see it as AMD was in the driver’s seat, move APU/mobo (and their ram) as a package on the cheap, a win for both. The OEM's get to entice buyers with better then GMA Craphics at great price, all the OEM had to bestow to AMD was a a quality 350W PSU! I mean a card in Hybrid C-F that provided GTX550ti performance in a plug and play package.
So, what now you get to sell the 7670 to OEM's so they can put them in Intel boxes... Rory you need to let go of more marketing guru's... or maybe that's who and why folk got the axe? The only thing I could think of was AMD made it buy the 7670 and FX-6100 as a package?
The last Nvidia card with great performance and low power was the GT240 GDDR5’s, since Fermi they haven’t done anything in this part of the market.
I don't see anywhere where it says they are exactly the same bar Tri-SLi. Care to point it out?
semi o.t. wasn't 9800gt turned into the gt240? or did it get a die shrink in between? i thought that core went through 3 solid rebrands.
But 9800GTX+ to GTS250, that's a rebrand whichever way you look at it. So is 8800GT to 9800GT to GT240, and HD 5770 to HD 6770.
press spec , then do the same for the 9800GT , and again for the 8800GT
if the spec is the same across all 3 cards - there obviously different then....
This one perheaps? www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_240_us.html
Defending the one who started rebranding by using obvious rebrands as a defense isn't a sound strategy. I've owned two 8800GTs. I still have a 9800GT and a GTX+.
Anyone else remember thinking back then that there was no way ATI could come back from that kind of beating? 8800GTX was boss haha.
And the 7670 is strictly for OEM market, so most customers wont even know about this card.
At least the AMD does not release different cards with the same name(see GT630 or GT640m-LE)
Can 7670 still be able to CF with A8/A10 APUs?
hmm will the 6670 price lowered just incase 7670 is available as non-OEM?
How big of a jump is from 4670 to 6670?