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AMD rebranding 57xx series to 67xx series

Well, if they're simply rebranding the 57xx series cards, surely they're not going to leave a humongous gap in their product line up...
 
I told you it's bound to happen. It's been explained months ago and is highly connected to Bulldozers' integrated graphics. AMD will get rid of lower segment of graphics cards, leaving 6700 or 6600 as the lowest dedicated graphics offerings. It's nothing confusing really, we could call it a rip off if they priced them higher than they already are. Hopefully it won't happen :p
 
they're still going to introduce new more powerful cards, but make sure their line isn't just a couple of 6xxx cards (so fill it up so to speak), so where's the problem?
 
I wasn't saying it's a problem, just that, unless they want a humongous gap in their line up between the 5770 and the 6850 (or whatever) the new cards can't be that much better than the 58xx.
 
Marvin said:
Well, if they're simply rebranding the 57xx series cards, surely they're not going to leave a humongous gap in their product line up...
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They are still introducing the exact same number of parts as usual, a low end, a mid and a high end with a dual GPU card. The only difference is this time the 6800 series is the mid end with the 6950/70 being the top end single GPU and the 6990 being the dual GPU card and the 57xx series being rebranded as the 67xx series.
 
The problem is that we can't **** off Nvidia for pulling a fast one, then not do the same to AMD. The only difference is that it's been done before so the shell shock ain't so bad lol. I'm actually 'meh' about it.
 
So is a 5770 a rebranded 4890 because it has 800 shaders? Neither will a 6xxx with 800 (or in the ballpark) be a rebrand, douchebag editor talking utter rubbish, his list of names quite literally makes no sense, neither of option 1 or 2 in his little table, is accurate, they would only be possible if there were ONLY two new cores, and AMD have already confirmed that they are doing a top to bottom refresh, or thats what we've been told, AMD hasn't officially said another word, at all, and making the odd slide isn't difficult and frankly I don't believe much of anything so far.

The "specs" I've assumed for the 6series are ones I guessed at months ago before any "leaked specs" were even being rumoured.

The names are, as always irrelevant, if AMD brings out a new circa 1900 shader core, 1200, 800, 400 and 80, new architecture or old, thats a new series of cards.

Theres not a whole lot of difference between the 4870/5870 cards, just doubling the numbers, both series have 800, 400/80 shader cards, are any of them rebrands, no, infact frankly its likely the entire new 6xxx series cards will be a MUCH bigger architectural change than 4 to 5 series.

Rebranded, get this right, would be if AMD kept the entire 5970 through 5450 set, used the SAME cores and called them 6970 through 6450, thats not whats happening here.

Infact, even if they did reuse the juniper core, if it provides the same performance as an equivilent "new" core anyway, and they likely drop the price point for the same performance, then there still wouldn't be an issue.

If they do rebrand anything in a crappy way I'll happily call them on it, but based off a few rumours with no shred of evidence. All this "fact" coming from a picture of an AMD card with 6870 on it.........
 
I'm sure the ATI crowd will now turn a blind eye or attempt to justify AMD's reasons for doing it, there's no way whiter than white AMD could perform a dispicable act like rebranding, oh the horror. :eek:
 
Surely, by definition, a new product can't be a rebrand. Changing the naming scheme is altogether different.

To be fair, anyone who buys a GPU these days without reading at least one review that lays all the details out has nobody to blame but themselves.
 
Given that they seem to be releasing what would seem to be a '6700' series as the 6800 series, then there's this and also the big mess in the 6900 series (where Cayman supposedly sits just below Cayman X2 (Antilles) as the 6970 and 6990 respectively, where there's a good chance the 6970 won't outperform the 5970) and now this. I have to wonder which guys are making the mistakes here, AMD's marketing (who have been more or less solid for the last three generations or so) or the guys finding this leaked information.
 
Dinkas said:
Even Wikipedia kinda supports this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...g_units#Northern_Islands_.28HD_6xxx.29_series

edit: just noticed the table on WP changing every time new speculation spreads. How crap.
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According to above wiki, and obviously wiki can be very wrong the only difference between the current 5770 and the "new" 6770 is a bump in core and memory clocks, unless I'm missing something? If that's the case what's the difference between this and the 8800/9800 re-brand.
 
Bergkamp said:
Surely, by definition, a new product can't be a rebrand. Changing the naming scheme is altogether different.

To be fair, anyone who buys a GPU these days without reading at least one review that lays all the details out has nobody to blame but themselves.
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Good point. :D
 
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