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AMD rebrands 5750/5770 to 6750/6770

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Currently OEM only, I guess OEM consumers are that easy to fool.

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.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/138823/AMD-Slips-in-Radeon-HD-6770-and-HD-6750-for-OEMs.html

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Wow. AMD have just lost a bit of the respect they won from me today. Yes, they make mental 6950's, but rebrands just **** everyone off! :rolleyes:
 
You sound like you knew nothing about this before. This was known for many months now, so it's nothing new. And yean NV was doing it for many years, and it was ok? So stop complaining.
 
Given that there's no difference in the specs I fail to see why they even went to the expense of bothering to re-brand it at least Nvidia gave the G92 a die shrink and increased clocks (all be the same chip was re branded about 4 times so AMD do have some catching up). Tut, tut, tut. It does seem a bit odd though if they could make the really efficient 6870 type chips which yes less power, physically smaller (so cheaper to produce) which offers 90% of the performance of your previous top end single GPU chip they wouldn't use the same technique on a 6770 chip and make it more profitable by making it smaller.

I'm not overlay bothered yet as it's OEM only only for the time being so we might not see this at retail. The only reason why they might be doing this for OEM's (this is just a theory) is for marketing purposes in as much as the 6000 series is the newest range and selling systems with 5000 series cards might make them look a bit old hat.

linaaslt said:
You sound like you knew nothing about this before. This was known for many months now, so it's nothing new. And yean NV was doing it for many years, and it was ok? So stop complaining.
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No it's not ok and Nvidia got slammed for it and rightfully so the only time enthusiasts didn't go into uproar was when Nvidia launched the GTS 300 series which were re branded low end 200 cards but they were OEM only. If this goes to retail then AMD will get slammed as well.
 
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linaaslt said:
You sound like you knew nothing about this before. This was known for many months now, so it's nothing new. And yean NV was doing it for many years, and it was ok? So stop complaining.
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The ATI/AMD crowd made a huge issue about it when the boot was on the other foot... no one actually really cares.
 
I think the reason that no one is making too much fuss about this is the fact that it is a lower midrange card. Nvidia (oh god this is gonna sound like a troll, trust me, I ain't no skyrocket :)) did it with a high end card that was in the spotlight, and that cost a lot of money. A lot more than what the 6770 will go for I guess. In fact, did they do it twice :confused:? I was never clear on that detail.

Now I honestly hope this thread doesn't turn into a "my penis is blatantly larger than yours cos I ordered a red/green card and you didnt, innit bruv" palava, as we had far too many of those leading up to the release of the 69xx series :rolleyes:
 
I don't agree with it, but i'm not going to be buying either card, and it's been known about for months now.

So this gets the /SHRUG award. :D
 
The G92 core was also rebranded into one of the 300 (340 I think) series cards too in almost identical configuration to the 200 series version which in turn was identical to the 8/9 series versions of that card.
 
So... can I flash my 5770 to a 6770?

Bad move AMD, bad move... At least overclock it to 1ghz core or change it to VLIW4 or something for a lower power draw. I don't like it when they rebrand cards :mad:.
 
Er, hello, cant you see. The 6770 and the 6750 will both have HDMI 1.4a support which the 5770/5750 didn't. It's a totally new card.

Sarcastic mode is now switched off.


Sorry, just trying to stir the **** between the red and green fanboys. :D
 
Freddie1980 said:
If this goes to retail then AMD will get slammed as well.
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No they won't, the pro-AMD/ATI crowd will deem rebranding to be totally acceptable business practice and all the flak they gave NVidia over it will be forgotten... much the same as how driver optimizations which cut corners in rendering is now deemed to be acceptable rather than cheating.

Has the Semiaccurate guy posted his utter disgust at this news yet? :p
 
I honestly think only a small flame is necessary. Slap on the wrist for AMD.

However if they do it again, but with a high end card, I'll be the first one to call a riot. Hell, I'll supply pitchforks. And I haven't had an Nvidia card since July! (had two AMD since then, I like shiny new things :rolleyes:)
 
It's when they rebrand it again that it will become truely ridiculous.
Still, I think it's utterly misleading to rebrand in this way.

A massive rolleyes for AMD on this one.
 
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