AMD Rebrands Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs to HD 8000 for OEMs

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/08/2013 10:23 AM | source: | 36 comment(s)

Well, there you have it. The "Radeon HD 8950" that Lenovo's Erazer X700 ships with as reported earlier on yesterday, is based on rebranding previous-generation GPUs. The following slide was spotted at AMD's website, which lists the specs-sheets of nine OEM-exclusive Radeon HD 8000 series SKUs, which reveal them to be complete rebrands of their HD 7000-series counterparts.

If you're into pre-built PCs, and planning to buy one soon, watch out what's crunching pixels in it (thanks TPU).

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	HD 8970	HD 8950	HD 8870	HD 8670	HD 8570
Name	HD 7970 GE	HD 7950	HD 7870	-	-
Stream processors	2048	1792	1280	384	384
Texture units	128	128	80	24	24
Clocl	1000MHz	850MHz	1000MHz	1000MHz	730MHz
Boost Clock	1050MHz	925MHz	-	-	-
Mem speed	6000MHz	5500MHz	4800MHz	4600MHz	4,6GHz / 1,8GHz ddr3
Mem bus	384bit	384bit	256bit	128bit	128bit
Mem	3GB	3GB	2GB	2GB	2GB
Transistors (Billion)	2,8	2,8	2,8	-	-
Fabrication	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
Architecture	GCN	GCN	GCN	GCN	GCN
TDP	250W	200W	175W	75W	50W

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CronoGraal
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#4495869 Posted on: 01/08/2013 03:48 PM

Don't know what the problem is, Nvidia do it all the time, remember what they did with the old 8800 GTS, they brought it out again as the 9800 GTX, then brought it out again at a higher price, as they'd just overclocked it and added a '+' sign to it (became 9800GTX+), then they brought it out yet again, this time called the 250 GTS (or whatever it was), so if its good enough for Nvidia.......

It's not anymore right when Nvidia does it.

Rich_Guy
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#4495901 Posted on: 01/08/2013 04:29 PM

It's not anymore right when Nvidia does it.

Its not no.

From what i read sometime ago, the 8's are not going to be much over the 7's anyway, only around 10%/15%, if that, so i'll be giving them a miss if true, 8's will be mainly for the 4/5/6 series owners who never bothered upgrading to a 7.

NAMEk
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#4495977 Posted on: 01/08/2013 06:43 PM

It is made to confuse customers, and some customers will fall for that, cause they might not know, something like that happened to me long time ago, i was sooo angry, so pissed off, stupid, that's just stupid.

mitzi76
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#4495994 Posted on: 01/08/2013 07:11 PM

this shouldnt be allowed. ok if you want to change the name, fine, but at least make it very clear it is an older released card i.e call a 7970 a 7970re (re for rebranded/rehashed).

otherwise to me it's just a con. i guess peeps can send it back once they realise it's not what they expected...

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#4496001 Posted on: 01/08/2013 07:16 PM

Lame amd

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