AMD is on the verge of introducing a quicker version of its $99 Radeon HD 5670 based on different silicon, according to a report by Inpai. The Chinese website claims the new version will be out this month with 50% more stream processors and a slightly lower core clock speed than its predecessor.
The current Radeon HD 5670 is AMD’s quickest product based on the Redwood graphics processor. Reportedly, however, the updated model will be based on the same Juniper chip that powers the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750—just with fewer stream processors. The motive behind the switch could be simple: perhaps yields of Juniper GPUs aren’t all that good, and AMD needs to sell off parts with too many faulty SPs to make the cut for the 5700 series.
Inpai’s article says the Juniper-based Radeon HD 5670 will have 640 stream processors and a 750MHz clock speed, compared to 400 SPs and a 775MHz core clock for the existing part. Both cards should have 512MB of GDDR5 RAM running through a 128-bit interface. The Radeon HD 5750, by contrast, has 720 SPs and a 700MHz speed.
There is one possible catch: Inpai claims the new 5670 will be "likely . . . only for the domestic market," so it might not show up in North America. That could make sense if AMD doesn’t quite have enough faulty Juniper GPUs to satisfy global demand.
I’d love to get another 5xxx series card (sold my 5770) but price in this bracket matters and AMD has been pretty arrogant with it’s 5xxx and even the leftover 4xxx pricing as of late so I’ll limp along with my HD 3650 for a while longer.
How big is that fan? 40mm? BAD! NO! BAD AMD! Rub their noses in it. It’s the only way they’ll learn.
Nice. Finally some really significant price:performance advancement without waiting for price drops.
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I’m still pretty sure the 6k series will be out before Nvidia is done with their GTX 4xx lineup. But I don’t expect them to show up before September, maybe October.
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GDDR5 all the way baby!
oh, hey, my bad. I forgot the 5770 and 5750 use 128-bit buses as well.
I think the biggest difference in performance is ROPs anyway. Especially at higher resolutions where the video card is a bottle neck in the first place.
How bout you do the damn HD6x00 already before nvidia finishes their dual nuclear reactors and Fudzilla praises them to seventh heaven.
According to the TR review the memory bandwidth of the 5670 is 64.0GB/s compared to the 5750’s 73.6; that’s 87% after rounding.
It also depends on how many ROPs are disabled. And don’t forget, the memory bandwidht is half that of the 5700 family.
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Does this mean 5670 will have gddr5 or gddr3?
Yeah, you’ll see this new card at ~$75-$80 once Nvidia gives AMD a reason to do so.
“Now if they can only make it a wide release and move the ‘old’ 5670 down a notch.”
There’s no need. The 5750 will be the new $99 card. They just need some motivation to push it down there, which Nvidia is not giving them.
And there are still $100-ish 4770s floating around.
There is no marketing. Things like this just about never make their way beyond OEMs or China.
This isn’t a press release or something. It’s just a blurb about a blurb from a Chinese site.
But it shouldn’t be priced as such. A $100 suggested retail price would put this right where it needs to be. With half of the memory and 90% of the speed of a 5750 it fits right in to the lineup as a good(but not /[
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So they cut 1/9th (11%) of the shaders from the 5750, up the speed by 7%, and call it a 5670.
It has 60% more shaders than the existing 5670, yet only runs 3% slower.
At worst this should be a 5730, in marketing world. Maybe 5690…
Those specs will make the 5670 an attractive card. The original card is by and large pointless for the average user. Not cheap enough to justify as a ‘what if’ for the casual user who seldom plays games and not fast enough to pick over the 5700s for a gaming enthusiast. Perhaps something to throw in as an upgrade for someone who doesn’t have much money but not worthwhile as part of a new system.
This would be a perfect market segmentation for the budget conscious buyer without cutting too far into 5750 margins. 95% of the processing power, 85% of the memory bandwidth, and half the memory at 75% cost.
Now if they can only make it a wide release and move the ‘old’ 5670 down a notch.