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Nvidia To Rename GPUs
Posted by Regeneration on September 26th, 2008, 06:00 AM

Following a recent announcement that the company would lay off about 7% of its staff, it seems that Nvidia is busy bringing the company back on track. Rumor has it that the company will be announcing additional graphics cards in the GT200 series on October 15. Coinciding with the product launch, Nvidia is expected to depart from its sequence numbering system of the 8000- and 9000-series and transition to a system that is in line with the GT200 series.

Industry sources told TG Daily that while the 8000 series is being phased out, all 55 nm 9000-series GPUs will carry a G100-series name. By the end of 2008, Nvidia will be offering today’s 9000 series as G100, GT120, GT130, GT140 and GT150 models.

When the 2009 45 nm GPUs arrive, which seems to be the case around Q1 or Q2, Nvidia will have fully transitioned to the new branding structure: Enthusiast GPUs will be integrated into the GTX200-series, performance GPUs into the GT200-series, mainstream GPUs into the GS200-series and entry-level products into the G200-series.

You can read the entire article at TG Daily.


9 Comments
Renaming GPUs after their release is just another way to drive badly informed consumers into thinking that they are buying a new and improved card.
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Pure Greed tactic......shame on u Nvidia
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A dud by any other name is still a dud.

[Apologies to Shakespeare.]
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a fail by any other name is a Dyre Straits.
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Originally Posted by squall_leonhart View Post
a fail by any other name is a Dyre Straits.
Looks like your mommy let you on the computer again.
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Now Dyre ,be easy on the little guy ,he can't help but be a NVfanboi.....just cause he is completely wrong about his ATI statements all the time ,and doesn't know his GFX card hardware, doesn't mean he can't express himself in emotional outbursts of a 12 yr old to feel better about over paying......
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i guess they try to help people by changing the name, as currently nearly noone can tell which card has more performance (9800+ vs 260 etc...)
i think its a good idea (what i noticed is that 9800 = 8800 with lower nm, but EXACT the same performance) while 9500 is faster than the old 8600 model, this confuses a lot!
now i got a 9500 with 1024 mb in my tower which does the job (not too good at gaming but... comes time comes new gpu, probably a ATi [i'm no fanboy & flame a brand ])
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geforce 4 MX anyone?
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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
geforce 4 MX anyone?
nope, but you can buy a 5200 fx from me if you need one
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