It ain’t AMD’s Navi, but four Radeon 600-series cards have appeared in its drivers
If you thought the imminent arrival of AMD’s Navi GPUs would herald the end for the continual rebranding of the Polaris range of graphics cards then you might have been a touch premature. Dig through the INF files of any recent AMD Adrenalin driver package and you’ll find multiple references to the unreleased Radeon 600-series of graphics silicon.
And before you get too excited about the potential implications of the new nomenclature possibly indicating the first flush of genuinely new AMD graphics cards, the low-level nature of the GPUs supported by the driver software precludes them being the vanguard for Navi. Rather, as they’re showing the same device IDs as existing, low-end Polaris GPUs we can be pretty sure the Radeon 620, Radeon 625, Radeon 630, and Radeon RX 640 are simply rebadged versions of existing hardware.
It’s likely that these are OEM rebrands of the existing Polaris GPUs for laptop makers to drop into their low-spec machines to make them sound as though they have brand new graphics silicon in them. They could even simply be the new names given to some rebranded weakheart Apple Mac graphics silicon so that the polo neck brigade can feel special with their own bespoke GPUs.
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