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AMD rebrands 5750/5770 to 6750/6770
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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?
And the pro Nvidia crowd will crow about AMD doing this even though many of them defended Nvidia when they did it... whats your point?
I don't care if AMD or Nvidia do it, If you're stupid enough to buy something without even a small amount of research then you deserve it.
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Sorry Buy its a Crap low end card.... its not a High end like what nvidia did cus they couldnt make new ones.
I couldnt care less what AMD did to the low range, Im all about the high end, Mess that up and i beat you bro!
I couldnt care less what AMD did to the low range, Im all about the high end, Mess that up and i beat you bro!
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As I said in the last argument, if the 8800 to 9800 had never happened, the 9800 to 250gts was never really an issue, it was just another in a long line of not good rebrands. If the 580gtx didn't even have the extra 32 shaders enabled, and clock speed but was still called a 580gtx even though it offered basically identical performance that would be bad, mostly if it was sold and a new increased cost.
Its less bad but still not good if the new card is cheaper but a rebrand.
But at the mid/low end, meh.
When the architecture hasn't moved on much, most new midrange cards are a "rebranded" previous gen high end, sometimes with a couple new features, usually ones that don't matter in the slightest.
The issue is trying to charge more, for a new name, while pretending increased performance, for the same performance as previously.
Thats why the 9800 to 250 gts wasn't bad, the 250gts was most certainly marketed as a lower midrange solution with a price to match, it wasn't re-released as a high end brand new £250 version of the same old card.
Think of the 280-285gtx, no need for a rebrand, minor change, die shrink, a bit cheaper and Nvidia didn't rebrand it, while 8800 to 9800 they did, and proclaimed it as fantastic and new.
Its not a retail card, its only OEM.
Which really makes me think it is to do with OEM seller not wanting their systems to sound dated due to the next generation being out.
If it goes to retail, then I will agree on it being dodgy ground (unless they charge the same or less for them), but until then it is a bit of a non-issue.
