Radeon's Lost Generation of Vidcards.

[MegalosSkylaki]

Or rather, duplicated generations if I understood this article.

AnandTech - AMD’s Radeon HD 6770 & Radeon HD 6750: The Retail Radeon 5700 Rebadge

e haven’t talked about it beyond a passing comment, but AMD still has some Radeon 6000 series cards that are OEM-only. We are of course referring to the Radeon HD 6770 and Radeon HD 6750, AMD’s Juniper-powered 5770 & 5750 rebadges for OEMs. While we’ve only recently seen the rest of the Northern Islands lineup launch in the retail space, in the OEM space the last-generation Juniper GPU has been filling out AMD’s lineup between Turks (6500/6600) and Barts (6800) based video cards.

The rationale for OEM space is rather straightforward: OEMs want/need something new to sell. More RAM, a Sandy Bridge CPU, a SSD – their 2011 computers need to look better than their 2010 computers, as they certainly don’t want to be seen as selling last year’s model for anything less than a steep discount. It was perhaps a foolish hope that these shenanigans would remain in the OEM market, as so far AMD has continued to keep the 5770 and 5750 even after the rest of Northern Islands has launched. But here we are, out with the old and in with the old: the 5770 and 5750 are getting rebadged in retail. Say hello to the Radeon HD 6770 and Radeon HD 6750

I have a machine with an OEM 5770 [Edit] gfx card and I have a boxed 5770 card sitting around. Lately I've been looking at upgrading and in the process "re-purposing" some desktop computers that have recently accumulated, including an HTPC in an AV receiver-type case and an SFF horizontal "business model" which boosts an floppy drive fer da CAAT's olde floppies.

So I investigated the vidcards and what do I discover?

The 6770 and 6750 largely duplicates with the higher number being used for OEM card versions of the 5770 and 5750s. This happened right about the switch from ATI to AMD which may have played into this.

MegalosSkylaki

[MegalosSkylaki]

By the way, one of my machines has a $300 cpu and a $100 gpu. (I didn't build it.) Any sense to this?

DOOG

[ShyguyXPC]

Nope, higher number models were not OEM, they were rebadeged 5700 models for the 6th gen hd series, same as their 5700 counterparts, with some minor insignificant improvements for video playback and he content more or less, basically what nvidia did with the 8800gt and 9800gt, same cards, rebadged with newer model numbers.

So they're the same cards. 5750 ---> 6750, 5770 ---> 6770.