14 DAY TRIAL // After releasing the HD 6800 and HD 6900 graphics card series, AMD is now moving into the mainstream with the recently announced HD 6700 series of graphics cards, but, unfortunately, these seem to be nothing more than a rebrand of the old HD 5700 product family as most of their specifications look extremely familiar.
This isn't something that we have come to expect from AMD as the company used the same architecture for all of the graphics cards that were part of a certain family.
This was the case with the HD 5000 series as well as with the HD 4000 series that was launched before it, so the move is at least a bit odd, and resembles much more what Nvidia has done in the past (remember the GTS 250?).
However, the specifications of the cards look too similar with those of the older generation to dismiss this fact, the AMD Radeon HD 6770 featuring the same count of stream processors, texturing units and ROPs as the HD 5770.
The same holds true for the Radeon HD 6750 as well, as it too shares the same specifications as the previously released HD 5750.
To add insult to injury, both of the “newly” launched cards are clocked at the exact same frequencies as their predecessors.
This means that gamers won't get any performance advantages from going from a Radeon HD 5770 to an HD 6770, although the naming scheme leads users to believe this to be the case.
Taking a look at the details provided by AMD for the HD 5700 and the HD 6700, the only worthwhile difference to be noticed is the addition of an HDMI 1.4a output that enables AMD HD3D support.
The company didn't make any official announcement regarding the two cards, but both of them are listed on AMD's website. (via XtremeSystems)
UPDATE: AMD has informed the press that these GPUs will only by available to OEMs. Read more about it here.
