Rebranding on the graphics card market - it is so frequent that it is almost not cause disturbance. Ironically, the profit from this operation are becoming. Companies sell "expand" range, experts are introduced into the state of stupor sellers, and the masses are able to cheaply buy new items. But sometimes rebranded reaches such proportions as to get used to the changes gradually. This happens, for example, changing the numbering of the principle of the lineup. A relatively recent example - is marking APU AMD, when there were all these A, B, C, D, and other models. The situation is similar, there are some data, we can expect an update to the autumn graphics, AMD. In fact, today we already hinted at this development.
According to our colleagues from VR-Zone and other online resources , in the fall instead of the new items under the guise of AMD Radeon HD 9xxx we can to please a message about the appearance of the adapter Radeon R9-xxxx, where the digit 9 does not apply to the name of the series.
The index R9 will serve identifier of a class of video cards, obviously - one of the highest. Some time ago the site SemiAccurate has published an excerpt from the latest drivers AMD, there was a place where such records as "AMD Radeon APU A6-6200 with R3 Graphics" and "AMD Radeon R5 M200 series". One can imagine that in this digital series is not over, that promises the appearance of series R1, R8 and others. AMD company can become a sniper and aiming to beat in every price category. Besides, if the letter "M" can refer to a cell belonging segment appearance letters "D" suggests itself. Thus, by the way, AMD graphics cards will refer to the principle of numbering APU.
In fact, in the recent past, we could see a similar designation by the example of a series of video cards Radeon X: Radeon X1950XTX and so on. Later letter "X" was replaced by "HD", so that the reverse transformation is quite likely. At the same time it will be possible to carry out a global re-branding of the old video card, and go, then figure out who is who.
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