Friday, November 18th 2011
Several Entry-thru-mid Radeon HD 7000 GPUs Mere Rebrands
Want a new graphics card this shopping season? Is news of Radeon HD 7000 series arriving late this year or early next year holding you back from purchasing current-generation? Don't let it, go grab that graphics card you had your eyes on. Fairly reliable sources point out that a bulk of Radeon HD 7000 series graphics cards will be based on rebranded current and previous generation GPUs. This bulk mostly spans across the entry-thru-mid range of the product lineup. Familiar GPU codenames such as Cedar, Caicos, and Turks, make a comeback with Radeon HD 7300 series, HD 7400 series, HD 7500 series, and HD 7600 series.
Moving up the ladder, the source postulates two possibilities for Radeon HD 7700 series. First, and more plausible, is that the series is based on Juniper (a hop across two previous generations!); the second is that these make use of rechristened GPUs from a slightly higher market position from the previous generation. Perhaps Barts, perhaps even highly crippled Cayman. The only real next-generation GPU is codenamed "Tahiti", but we're hearing that graphics cards based on it are said to not follow the Radeon HD 7000 series nomenclature altogether.
Source:
ChipHell
Moving up the ladder, the source postulates two possibilities for Radeon HD 7700 series. First, and more plausible, is that the series is based on Juniper (a hop across two previous generations!); the second is that these make use of rechristened GPUs from a slightly higher market position from the previous generation. Perhaps Barts, perhaps even highly crippled Cayman. The only real next-generation GPU is codenamed "Tahiti", but we're hearing that graphics cards based on it are said to not follow the Radeon HD 7000 series nomenclature altogether.
66 Comments on Several Entry-thru-mid Radeon HD 7000 GPUs Mere Rebrands
some newer cards is the old one, just rebrand it add new hsf and done.
1.research don't depend on marketing
2.get what makes you happy- don't settle for less cause everytime something new comes out ur regrettin
Disclaimer: I'm referring to AMD, Retailers that will market the products as 32nm, and some unfortunate poor bastards who will buy the cards thinking the'll get something entirely new. Not anyone in this thread >_>
3560x1920 is quite straining on a single HD6970.
I wonder if a HD5670 can max out BF3 at this resolution......:p
I would like to point out HD 6670 6650 is a VLIW5 architecture and are different from the information we have on HD 7670 which is a more advanced VLIW4 architecture.
Furthermore, the core count on HD 7670 are 768 stream processor cores and is on TSMC 28nm HPL node, the HD 6670 however, have 480 stream processor cores and is on TSMC 40 nm node.
Right off the bat that graph from chiphell have misleading/missing info on a number of upcoming HD 7000 series of gpu.
I would like Mr Btarunr of TechPowerUp to review these indisputable discrepancies. This so call graph from a certain user on Chiphell is nothing but to spread fud.
www.nordichardware.com/news/71-graphics/44072-radeon-hd-7900-series-gets-new-architecture-and-xdr2-rambus-memory.html
I believe at TPU have also reported this story sometime in Sept.
Ex: desktop : Radeon HD 6670 with 480 Stream Processing Units @ 800 MHz
Mobile : AMD Radeon HD 6770M 480@675 / 725MHz to Radeon HD 6630M 480@485MHz
Same with HD 5000 series
Desktop: Radeon HD 5570 400@650Mhz
Mobile : Mobility Radeon HD 5770 400@650MHz to Mobility Radeon HD 5650 400@450-650MHz
Same architecture, same node for mobile and desktop version.
It is within reason to assume that if the mobile HD 7000 series use TSMC 28nm HPL node then the desktop big brother also use the same architecture and node. In this case TSMC 28nm HPL, and not a re-brand from the 40nm node.
Edit: Now that I've check that chipHell link. That poster said:
"1， 凡是 H7XXX命名的显卡全部都是马甲"
translation: 1, all the graphics card that are named H7XXX are re-brands.
That statement should reveal the poster's true intentions right there.
Banshee do not count because it was different than a Voodoo 2 or Voodoo rush