News - AMD pulls switcheroo and renames Radeon HD 5700 to HD 6700

[HEXUS]

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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Looks like AMD have learnt a thing or two from Nvidia!

[Uriel]

What? Not even upping the clocks?

I'd have been happy with calling them HD56** or something.

[scaryjim]

Presumably you mean HD66*0, since the HD5670 already exists

Given this is the exact rumour that started circulating more than 6 months ago, it's not a huge surprise. It also pretty much guarantees that the lower end cards won't get a 6-series update either, since there's not a huge amount of performance space or price between them. Looks like we're waiting another generation for that high performance bus-powered card...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I though that the HD6350 was replacing the HD5450:

http://www.techpowerup.com/130456/AM...tured-Too.html

Supposedly,the HD6350 is around 30% faster than an HD5450.

[MSIC]

This is annoying news. I was hoping to buy a new graphics card in the next few months, and was thinking that a new mid-range card might be able to use a lesser power-draw compared to the 5000 series.
Boooooo.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This is annoying news. I was hoping to buy a new graphics card in the next few months, and was thinking that a new mid-range card might be able to use a lesser power-draw compared to the 5000 series.
Boooooo.

The HD6850 1GB only uses a bit more power than an HD5770 1GB and is much faster:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3987/a...range-market/1

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/

[aidanjt]

Tut, tut, AMD.