Las Vegas' annual CES gadget-fest is almost upon us, and system integrators are going to want to show off desktop PCs with all the latest graphics cards.
Trouble is, look past the recently-introduced Radeon HD 7970, and you'll find that brand spankin' new GPUs are few and far between. NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce is nowhere to be seen, and AMD's one-and-only Radeon 7000-series part is tough to justify at over £400.
OEMs need an alternative, and AMD has quietly obliged with the introduction of the Radeon HD 7670. The new card, spotted in recent desktop PC announcements and found tucked away in AMD's product pages, features an 800MHz core, 480 stream processors, 24 texture units and eight ROPs. That's joined by up to 1GB of GDDR5 memory hooked up to a 128-bit interface.
Sound familiar? It should, as the Radeon HD 7670 appears to be the same as the Radeon HD 6670 launched in April last year.
The new card remains a potent solution, and it'll be enjoyed by many PC buyers in the coming months, but hey, way to dilute a new product range. What we have now is Radeon HD 7000 series cards based on two architectures; Graphics Core Next and Graphics Core Old.
