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AMD launches second Radeon HD 7000-series GPU

by Parm Mann on 5 January 2012, 10:37

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Las Vegas' annual CES gadget-fest is almost upon us, and system integrators are going to want to show off desktop PCs with all the latest graphics cards.

Trouble is, look past the recently-introduced Radeon HD 7970, and you'll find that brand spankin' new GPUs are few and far between. NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce is nowhere to be seen, and AMD's one-and-only Radeon 7000-series part is tough to justify at over Ā£400.

OEMs need an alternative, and AMD has quietly obliged with the introduction of the Radeon HD 7670. The new card, spotted in recent desktop PC announcements and found tucked away in AMD's product pages, features an 800MHz core, 480 stream processors, 24 texture units and eight ROPs. That's joined by up to 1GB of GDDR5 memory hooked up to a 128-bit interface.

Sound familiar? It should, as the Radeon HD 7670 appears to be the same as the Radeon HD 6670 launched in April last year.

The new card remains a potent solution, and it'll be enjoyed by many PC buyers in the coming months, but hey, way to dilute a new product range. What we have now is Radeon HD 7000 series cards based on two architectures; Graphics Core Next and Graphics Core Old.



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Where's my 7870? ;-)
It's in your case right now, just so happens to have a “6870” sticker on it.
Get your tippex out, and bingo.
MSIC
It's in your case right now, just so happens to have a “6870” sticker on it.
Get your tippex out, and bingo.
That probably wont be a rebrand.
probably will, but its more likely to be a 6970 i would have thought?
Anyone think something is up with AMD with not releasing any other models of the 7000 series or possibly just running stock down of the 6000 series.