Click HERE for the big picture
Update (2010.11.12)
This news seems to be a hot topic over the web and many websites have relayed it telling that Sapphire is rebranding HD 5550 to HD 6390. I wish to clarify this point: I never wrote that Sapphire is rebranding HD 5550. I received the pictures of a Sapphire HD 5550 detected as a HD 6390 by GPU Caps Viewer 1.9.4. That’s all.
What’s more, here is the official position of the Sapphire Russian team:
It is standard practice in the industry to have special products that vary from the products on offer in retail for system integration to meet those needs. But Sapphire has not sold any product into the Russian market for the current generation products (i.e. any 5K series rebranded to 6K series). Sapphire take their quality and the care of their products and very seriously. Our own investigation shows that there are no Sapphire products in current K-Systems computers, neither rebranded nor regular. Russian AMD representative and K-System
representative confirmed this.
This is a nice example of news distortion (and domino effect…).
I just received the proof in images: a Radeon HD 5550 (here a Sapphire‘s model) is detected as a Radeon HD 6390 in GPU Caps Viewer 1.9.4. Why because the HD 6390 uses the same device id than the HD 5550 (320 scalar processors) and for GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.2 the device id 0x68da is a HD 5550. Not a big story but it always fun to see rebranding in action.
Detailed pictures are available HERE.
FudZilla has à detailed story about this topic: Repackaging old cards and Nvidia’s ideas:
Russian PC maker K-Systems will offer three rehashed HD 5000 cards in its systems starting November. The cards are apparently branded HD 6250, HD 6390 and HD 6510. At this point we don’t know which HD 5000 series cards they are based on, but we’re probably looking at Cedar and Redwood cores.
Radeon HD 5550 1GB DDR3
Other rebranding stories:
Full size card would be better
http://www.vgadownload.com/ati-graphic-card/powercolor-ax5550-512mk3-h-radeon-hd-5550-512mb-128-bit-ddr3/
6390 has OpenGL 4, how much is that better then 3.2 or is this just driver limitation?
all DX11 card can have OpenGL 4. and 5xxx have 4.0 (and with future driver 4.1 too). they just didn’t update site with specification.
This is a list of the DevID’s to compare.
“ATI Radeon HD 5450” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9
“ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68DA
“ATI Radeon HD 5570” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68D9
“ATI Radeon HD 5600/5700” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68B9
“ATI Radeon HD 5670” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68D8
“ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68B8
“ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68BE
“ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6898
“ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6899
“ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_689E
“ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series” = ati2mtag_EvergreenH, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_689C
“ATI Radeon HD 6230” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_3003148C
“ATI Radeon HD 6250” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_3001148C
“ATI Radeon HD 6290” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_3002148C
“ATI Radeon HD 6390” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68DA&SUBSYS_3000148C
“ATI Radeon HD 6510” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68D9&SUBSYS_3000148C
“ATI Radeon HD 6750” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68BE&SUBSYS_3000148C
“ATI Radeon HD 6230 ” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_3000174B
“ATI Radeon HD 6250 ” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_6250174B
“ATI Radeon HD 6290 ” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_6290174B
“ATI Radeon HD 6390 ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68DA&SUBSYS_3000174B
“ATI Radeon HD 6510 ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68D9&SUBSYS_3000174B
“ATI Radeon HD 6750 ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68BE&SUBSYS_3000174B
“ATI Radeon HD 6230 ” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_300117AF
“ATI Radeon HD 6250 ” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_300017AF
“ATI Radeon HD 6290 ” = ati2mtag_EvergreenC, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68F9&SUBSYS_300217AF
“ATI Radeon HD 6390 ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68DA&SUBSYS_300017AF
“ATI Radeon HD 6510 ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68D9&SUBSYS_300017AF
“ATI Radeon HD 6750 ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68BE&SUBSYS_300017AF
Нет уж, пусть лучше они сами его покупают XD
no thanks, it would be better if they buy it yourself 😛
In Soviet Russia, the videocard rebrands you! =D
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Sapphire Technology does not rebrand 5k to 6k series and does not sell any cards to K-Systems company.
Accoring to CNews (russian online portal) (http://www.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2010/10/21/413140) K-Systems uses rebranded Radeon HD 6250, 6390, 6510. Sapphire is not involved in this.
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