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Ryu Connor wrote:Existing cards rebadged with a different model numbers?!!!!!11shiftone
Shock. Horror. Rage.
This thread isn't nearly vitriolic enough about evil marketing geniuses. I expect to see some more hate here. People have an image of neutrality to maintain in the war of red versus green. So let's see it: "Bad AMD! No cookie!"
flip-mode wrote:Hehehe, have I been gaming longer than you? Fufufu...Once AMD launches (or rebadges) the 8000 series, model numbers will have come one complete circle since the days I first started gaming (the days of the Radeon 8500 Pro, although my first card was a Rage 128 Pro or someting like that).
nanoflower wrote:I still have my Matrox Mystique, Rendition Verite and Voodoo2 cards.
wintermane666 wrote:The difference is when NVidia recycles a chip design they almost always put it in lower in the lineup. So a 240 became a 330 a 460 became a 550 and so on.
Ryu Connor wrote:Existing cards rebadged with a different model numbers?!!!!!11shiftone
Shock. Horror. Rage.
This thread isn't nearly vitriolic enough about evil marketing geniuses. I expect to see some more hate here. People have an image of neutrality to maintain in the war of red versus green. So let's see it: "Bad AMD! No cookie!"
cynan wrote:wintermane666 wrote:The difference is when NVidia recycles a chip design they almost always put it in lower in the lineup. So a 240 became a 330 a 460 became a 550 and so on.
How is that significant in any way? Case in point: Not too long ago, a certain large online retailer had 2 bottom end Nvidia discrete GPUs listed side by side (Edit of the same brand). One was a gt 530, the other a gt 620. The GPUs are identical. However, the 530 was $50 and the other was $60. So how exactly does giving the 600 series part a "20" suffix and the 500 series part a "30" suffix help at all? It does absolutely nothing for the potential customer.
I think the big difference here is that these rebadged 8000 parts are only available to certain OEMs and not to the general market. This is a first and kind of suggests that AMD didn't want to do it, but was desperate not to loose sales to certain OEMs... Not that that makes it better.
Arclight wrote:Guys, chill the f*ck out. Those are OEM models.
Arclight wrote:Guys, chill the f*ck out. Those are OEM models.
ClickClick5 wrote:Ok, just checking. I thought they looked.....different. Perhaps a typo? But to be EXACTLY like the others (OH WAIT, DX11.1!) is a tad disappointing.
AbRASiON wrote:Arclight wrote:Guys, chill the f*ck out. Those are OEM models.
Why?
It's pretty outrageous behaviour.
Who knows when the true 8xxx series will come out or what it will be called - but doing this isn't a wise course of action.
I just hope they skip 8xxx all together now and brand the new stuff something else. Looks like we're heading in to a 2 year cycle. I hope the PS4 and X720 cash has helped keep them alive.
Savyg wrote:Although the hot-clocked versions of Radeon HD6850 or stock HD6870 cards offer performance similar to Radeon HD5850 in most games, they use different processors to get the job done. Radeon HD5850 & 5870 use the Cypress GPU. Radeon HD6850 &6870 use the Barts GPU. You could even get similar performance to a Radeon HD5850 with a hot-clocked GeForce GTX460.I'm already on the fence about getting a 7850/7870 from my 6870. It's bad enough my 6870 is a 5850 and I didn't even realize that until recently.
Savyg wrote:ClickClick5 wrote:I'm already on the fence about getting a 7850/7870 from my 6870 (because I know the 8xxx are coming and it's not a huge jump) . It's bad enough my 6870 is a 5850 and I didn't even realize that until recently.
Cataclysm_ZA wrote:I'd take the jump
Savyg wrote:With Radeon HD7950 3GB cards available this week for under $250 AR with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Crysis 3 and Bioshock Infinite, how much cheaper do they need to be?If I could afford a 79xx it'd be worth it.
JustAnEngineer wrote:$250 after rebate is still $270+ before rebate. You don't magically get to pay the after-rebate price. All those free games are nice, for sure, but what if you already own them, or don't want them? I sure don't care about any of those.Savyg wrote:With Radeon HD7950 3GB cards available this week for under $250 AR with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Crysis 3 and Bioshock Infinite, how much cheaper do they need to be?If I could afford a 79xx it'd be worth it.