Amd radeon hd 7670m asus update#
Amd radeon hd 7670m asus series#

As you may recall, SI introduced the Video Codec Engine (VCE), which is AMDвЂ™s fixed function encoder. The 74 are listed as having вЂњVideo Compression Engine (VCE)вЂќ support as a feature.

Amd radeon hd 7670m asus series#

Meanwhile AMDвЂ™s web team appears to have made some mistakes listing specifications, which makes the 7000 series ambiguity even worse. So it lacks all the features Northern Islands brought, including DisplayPort 1.2 support, improved anisotropic filtering, UVD3, MLAA, and the improved tessellation unit all of this being on top of all of the differences between Northern Islands and Southern Islands. The last one is particularly notable as Cedar is from the Evergreen family, not Northern Islands. And absurdly enough, the 2 year old Cedar based 5450 is back as the 7350. The Caicos based 6450 is back as the 7470 and the 7450 (depending on the type of RAM used). The Turks based 6570 is back as the 7570.

Amd radeon hd 7670m asus update#

Update : The crew over at TomвЂ™s Hardware found AMDвЂ™s complete OEM video card page the 7670 wasn't alone. OEM products sometimes cross over - the 6770 being the most recent example - so the 7670 may not stay OEM-only forever. Long term there will also be the question of whether we'll see the 7670 Turks in the retail market.

Ultimately the launch of the 7670 brings with it the same problem that most other rebrands do, albeit on a larger scale: it's being sold on the well-earned strength of the 7000 series name but lacks the 7000 series' features.

Turks simply doesn't have enough in common with Southern Islands to justify this kind of a model number. Do you want fast H.264 encoding and Direct3D 11.1 support? Then you want a Radeon HD 7000 series card, but now you have to make sure itвЂ™s not a 7670. Video Codec Engine (fixed function H.264 encoder)ДЄnisotropic Filtering Quality ImprovementsДЄs it stands Turks is still a fine GPU, but when badged as the 7670 this insane namespace collision makes it very hard to meaningfully differentiate between products. None of which will be available with the Turks based 7670. The following is a list of some the important attributes and major features being introduced with Southern Islands. Southern Islands was the biggest GPU architectural overhaul for AMD in the last 5 years, creating a massive divide between Turks and Southern Islands. Turks and Tahiti (and Cape Verde and Pitcairn) are distinctly different products from a feature set perspective. The problem of course with a Turks-based 7000 series product is that there just arenвЂ™t a lot of similarities to the other 7000 series products to speak of.

It typically takes AMD around 6 months to launch a complete product stack so a Turks-like GCN product would be a spring/summer affair, but OEMs donвЂ™t want to wait that long, especially with CES right around the corner. However as the OEM desktop is usually at least slightly saner than the mobile market we had some hope that the 7000M rebrand wouldnвЂ™t catch up to the desktop market, but this was not to be. Technically speaking AMD already diluted the 7000 series last month with the launch of the 7000M series, which saw TurksвЂ™ and CaicosвЂ™ mobile counterparts reborn as various 7000M products. Ultimately because of the ambiguity in the OEM market and the need to push specifications, some of the most ridiculous video cards are launched here. Instead the OEM market is ambiguous on its best days and secretive at its worst, and as a result OEM-only products rarely get a formal announcement, and you would never know about some products if not for the fact that OEMs list them in their system specifications like HP did in this case. So much of what we take for granted with retail cards вЂ“ well defined specifications and formal product announcements through press releases вЂ“ simply donвЂ™t happen in the OEM market.

The OEM market вЂ“ mobile and discrete вЂ“ is in fact the norm, as OEM video card sales absolutely dwarf retail discrete video card sales. There are days IвЂ™d like to think that itвЂ™s the OEM market thatвЂ™s the oddball, but the truth of the matter is that itвЂ™s the retail discrete market thatвЂ™s the oddball. Initially thinking it was a typo on HPвЂ™s part we did some digging, and after finding a well-hidden product page we had our answer. HP was launching their gaming-oriented Phoenix desktop, and the spec sheet listed a video card he had never seen before: the Radeon HD 7670. Earlier today one of our news editors, Andrew Cunningham, came to me with an interesting problem.