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There’s much more to Cape Verde than a higher transistor count, of course. Thanks to TSMC’s 28-nm process technology, however, Cape Verde manages to pack a whopping 1.5 billion transistors inside its diminutive die-that’s a 44% increase over Juniper’s 1.04 billion transistors. It’s actually even smaller than the Radeon HD 5770’s Juniper chip, whose footprint was around 166 mm². Cape Verde is, fittingly, part of the Southern Islands GPU family that includes Tahiti and the soon-to-follow Pitcairn.Īt 123 mm², Cape Verde isn’t very big. But it so happens that AMD chose Cape Verde as the code-name for its latest GPU, which is featured in the Radeon HD 7700 series. What does that have to do with graphics processors, you ask? Absolutely nothing. Wikipedia says Cape Verde (rhymes with bird) is a republic that spans a small archipelago in the central Atlantic, about 350 miles off the African coast.
#AMD RADEON HD 6700 NVIDIA GTX 650 COMPARISON SERIES#
Can the 7700 series live up to so many months of pent-up desire for new mid-range goodness? That’s what we’re here to find out. At the stroke of midnight tonight, AMD launches the Radeon HD 7700 series, a new mid-range product line featuring 28-nm silicon, AMD’s latest and greatest GPU architecture, and purported performance improvements. In the wake of Valentine’s Day 2012, though, the Radeon HD 5770 (and the Juniper chip within) finally reaches the end of its run.
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According to the Steam hardware survey, the 5770 is the second-most popular choice for Steam users behind Nvidia’s GeForce 9800 series. That combination of longevity, low price, and solid performance has made this card something of a staple for gamers on a budget. Today, you can nab the same card (and its post-facelift alter ego, the Radeon HD 6770) for as little as $100. The Radeon HD 5770 cost $159 when it came out in October of ’09. What little new silicon AMD and Nvidia produced was reserved for higher price brackets, and other products just stuck around, getting price cuts and minor facelifts along the way.
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When TSMC decided to cancel its 32-nm fab process a few years back, both AMD and Nvidia were left with no choice but to make do at 40 nm until the next process node in TSMC’s roadmap became available. It’s hard to blame AMD for the lack of progress. But other than that, they were pretty much identical to the Radeon HD 57 from the Fall 2009 catalog, down to the Juniper GPUs under their heatsinks. Can you believe it’s been over two years since we saw a genuinely new mid-range graphics processor from AMD? Oh, sure, the Radeon HD 67 that came out last April had new video decoding logic and HDMI 1.4a support.