AMD's Radeon 7000M and Nvidia's GeForce 600M Mobile GPUs

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AMD and Nvidia are both on the same page for this holiday season with the release of their new graphics cards. 1) They started with the mobile version and 2) there is nothing really new about their new versions. AMD "rebranded" its Radeon HD 6000M series to Radeon HD 7000M series. Nvidia's GeForce 600M launch is a rebrand of GeForce 500M parts.

AMD's "new" release includes three models; HD 7600M, 7500M and 7400M. The HD 7400M looks to be based on the same Seymore XT used with the HD 6470M. The HD 7600 follows suit and looks to be based on same Whistler Pro used with the HD 6750M. The HD 7500 fits in between the HD 7600M and HD 7400M. It combines the 480 core GPU of the HD 7600M with the 64-bit memory interface of the HD 7400M. All the current 7000M models have the ability to support DDR3 or GDDR5 memory

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  • amk-aka-Phantom
    Great, even MORE re-branded GPUs to remember! Good thing I deal only with desktops lately. It'll be a major disappointment for everyone if AMD/nVidia will also pull rebranding trick on their next-gen desktop cards.
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  • Pyree
    Knowing that there will be rebadge GPU for the laptop market is useful (we can safely assume the mid to mid low range of mobile GPU will be ok for a while in the future), but not very exciting at all.
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  • f-gomes
    If you live and love the IT industry, you will learn not to overreact to this marketing phenomenoms, as they are not directed at you.
    Also, none of these will refrain either company from developing new products, so stop bitching about rebadging - it's not new, it's bound to happen every now and then, and doesn't harm anyone.
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  • sixdegree
    Thank god this re-branding trend doesn't spread into CPU market.
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  • amk-aka-Phantom
    sixdegreeThank god this re-branding trend doesn't spread into CPU market.
    ... instead, we get downgrades. Like Bulldozer.

    :D
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  • de5_Roy
    cool! new radeon 7000 series gp...wait, these are just rebadged 6000m gpus. so technically, the 7000 series gpus did debut.... :(
    wonder when the real 28 nm gpus will debut. is southern islands platform amd's first designed gpu since they merged ati? iirc the 6000 series was ati's but first amd released.
    amd's phenom ii x4 840 could be an example of cpu rebadging. iirc intel rebadged a xeon cpu (i forgot the model number) to pentium extreme edition to compete with then-athlon cpus.
    edit: i could be wrong about the rebadging....that was a long time ago, during the time of myths and legends....
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  • amk-aka-Phantom
    f-gomesIf you live and love the IT industry, you will learn not to overreact to this marketing phenomenoms, as they are not directed at you.Also, none of these will refrain either company from developing new products, so stop bitching about rebadging - it's not new, it's bound to happen every now and then, and doesn't harm anyone.
    Care to tell us whom are these directed at, then?
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  • f-gomes
    Directed at less informed buyers. Buyers who don't know what a shader is.
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  • shoelessinsight
    f-gomesstop bitching about rebadging - it's not new, it's bound to happen every now and then, and doesn't harm anyone.If they charge extra money for the re-branded cards vs. their original versions, then it hurts everybody that isn't tech savvy enough to know about this marketing cheat. For those of us that are tech savvy, it's still just plain annoying that we have to remember which is what.
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  • ohim
    amk-aka-phantom... instead, we get downgrades. Like Bulldozer.Please do look into this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-3930k-3820-test-benchmark,3090.html and stfu.
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