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    Introducing AMD’s Radeon 7000M and NVIDIA’s GeForce 600M Mobile GPUs

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by rawrasaurus, Dec 7, 2011.

  1. rawrasaurus

    rawrasaurus Notebook Guru

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  2. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Meh. The GT 635M looks to be a bit faster than the GT555M but nothing to be super excited about. Shame that the 7000M series are not fully revealed but I expect them to be the same Meh. 7400M/7500M/7600M are still 40 nm and using the same architecture as 6000M series.

    Yay for the rebranding :rolleyes:
     
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  3. rawrasaurus

    rawrasaurus Notebook Guru

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    I hope the Wimbledon cards are 28nm :/
     
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    ya, big time renaming and rebranding!

    I am anxiously awaiting to see the official specs of the performance parts from both the red and green teams
     
    SlickDude80, Dec 7, 2011
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    I'm hoping the new high end AMD offerings will really give nvidia a run for their money. AMD already has technically more powerful parts than nvidia, they're just ruined by how complicated they are to use and how they're not as versatile as the FERMI core, part of the reason why nvidia cards seem to have more stable frame rates at the moment. When AMD apply their current tech to something more along the fermi core (supposedly the way they're going) and couple that with a 28nm shrink and building on the raw compute power they currently have over the nvidia competition, it really looks expremely promising. If you compare that to what nvidia have to offer (simple die shrink of the fermi core, although that might allow more to be used per chip), it certainly looks promising.

    PS: I'm not trying to imply that the current AMD cards are bad, just that they could be so much more.
     
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    Apollo13 100% 16:10 Screens

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    Whew, I thought for a second that desktop parts launched too, and the 6870 I got today was obsolete before I even opened the box. Would've made me feel a lot like Weird Al in 1999.

    Too bad it's basically a rebadge, though. That seems to be the popular way of launching new GPU lines these days. Hopefully some of the later 7000s will be an actual new generation.
     
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