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New graphics card also? It says AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB GDDR5 memory on the page Edit: I think it was an Nvidia 750 before

• bryanlarsen 11y ago
  That's basically the same graphics card. AMD recently did an "OEM refresh", which didn't do much more than put new numbers on the old cards. They fiddled with frequencies, but they're basically the same old cards. Manufacturers demand this, and unlike Intel & nVidia, AMD doesn't have the clout to say no to stupid requests like this. Significantly, they didn't refresh their retail range of cards, so there is still some hope that AMD has a significant refresh coming soon; AMD still doesn't have an answer for nVidia Maxwell, which was first released over a year ago.
  • Robadob 11y ago
    Pretty sure NVIDIA has done the same on occasion, for example the 800m GTX series, doesn't have an 800 GTX desktop counterpart. Many of the 800m cards used the same chips as 700m series, just with small changes. Apparently they were originally planning on releasing Maxwell as 800 series, but due to Laptop manufacturer pressure ended up deferring it after releasing Kepler 800m cards.
  • izacus 11y ago
    Yep, on the other hand the previous 750M was essentually the same chip as 650M (+ a few Mhz) as well, so the discrete GPUs in rMBPs are kinda dissapointing for a few generations now :/