r7 and r9 series?

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So I've been hearing about the new (well ok semi new) r7/9 series cards by amd, and my question is, are r7 cards like reboot of older cards? Because looking at some prices, they're not that bad in price, whereas r9's seem to be powerful, so are r9 a step forward, while r7 is updating the old?
 
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The only reason behind all of this rebranding is quite simple really; the OEMs (like Acer HP DELL who make prebuilt boxes/laptops) want to get 'new' parts on a yearly basis. Sometimes it actually fits into the chip makers schedule so they really get new parts but often it doesn't and they end up with the same old parts but with a new name on the sticker. They then can sell 'new' laptops to the general public who doesn't know better...

Also designing completely new line up with several different sized chips is quite expensive thing to do with every generation, so both AMD and Nvidia tend to...
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The r7 cards are also rebrands, the r7 240 and 250 are rebrands of the OEM 8570 and 8670, the 260x is a rebranded 7790

The only non rebrands are the new r9 290 and 290x cards

No rebrand of the 7850

r9 270/270x = different clocked 7870

No rebrand of the 7950

r9 280x = 7970 GHz edition essentially
 
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I don't know the exact reason. They are literally the same cards. They can even be crossfired with each other. At least nvidia improves them and gives them larger memory buses.
 
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Besides from the fact they make some minor changes (upping clock speeds a bit and probably a few other tweaks) but the fps difference is very minimal.

May just be AMD's way of showing the public they're still working. It's a great way to cause a good income, loads of businesses do it - rebranding something old as something new means they can reduce the support they're giving old cards (making people think they're being left behind) and then go ahead and add driver updates to new products so people can sidegrade (but in their eyes, upgrade).

 
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The only reason behind all of this rebranding is quite simple really; the OEMs (like Acer HP DELL who make prebuilt boxes/laptops) want to get 'new' parts on a yearly basis. Sometimes it actually fits into the chip makers schedule so they really get new parts but often it doesn't and they end up with the same old parts but with a new name on the sticker. They then can sell 'new' laptops to the general public who doesn't know better...

Also designing completely new line up with several different sized chips is quite expensive thing to do with every generation, so both AMD and Nvidia tend to reuse some older chips if possible and reposition them into a lower tier than which they originally launched in. So a gt440 gets rebadged into a gt630 for example.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5845/nvidia-launches-fermi-based-geforce-gt-610-gt-620-gt-630-into-retail
 
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You won't always see a new change in architecture with every generation, for example Nvidia's Geforce 9000 series was mostly rebrands of the 8000 lineup (8800 GTX = 9800 GTX)

Nvidia's 700 series also comprises partly of them, the 760 is essentially a 660Ti/670 and the 770 is a beefed up 680

When you release a new series and you still have some lower end chips you want to sell, you rebrand them to fit the name of the new series to help sell them off
 
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