Nvidia renaming gpu's next year

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39482/135/#comments

 

why couldnt they have done that earlier

the new naming system will make it so much easier to identify the cards

 

That's great and all that, but are they going to actually build new chips or just OC the leftovers from 8's and 9's and try and sell them to us for the 2nd year.

 

Just read the article... nothings going to change.

We are going to end up with left over chips from the 8 and 9 series.

The only thing Nvidia is changing about their naming system is they put the letters in front of the numbers instead of after (i.e. 9700 GT becomes GT270). Sorry if I seem pessimistic but I still foresee the same naming issues as always.

 

Nice Find. Interesting to see them not us GTX series for notebooks. Hopefully nVidia will incorporate new architecture into these GPU's, instead of a die shrink and OC.

 

Is this going to be an excuse for NVIDIA to not come out with a real 10-series refresh and they're just going to rename most cards, like they did with the 9-series? With the card failures, it looks like NVIDIA might have to do that to make back their losses.

 

Eh Either Way IDC as long as it can play Crysis on MAX settings

 

I'd rather they learn to develop games that have wonderful graphics and aren't resource hogs (i.e. Warhead compared to original Crysis).

 

nVidia != Game manufacturer.

 

This will make things easier, but the current convention isn't so bad IMO.

 

rofl what?

 

So they'll have two runs of GT200 series? The ones today, and then again end of 2009? That will be confusing.

Plus I think it makes more sense to keep the series number in front, and performance indicator in the end. So that way it's a 200 series, but either a G (low end), GT (main stream), GTS (peformance), or GTX (ultra).

 

I don't think this will actually make it that much clearer as I understand the article. Take the 8-serie (I'm not even going to try the 9-serie). What they have now is:

8400 G
8400 GS
8400 GT
8600 GS
8600 GT DDR2
8600 GT DDR3
8700 GT
8800 GTS
8800 GTX

The confusing thing is that there's multiple varieties of 8400/8600/8700, and that there's two 8600 GT's. But so long as you remember that the number is most important, then suffix (G, then GS, then GT), and then DDR type (3 > 2), you can figure it out. What they'd have with this system, assuming 8000 became 100 (instead of 9000 becoming 100) is:

G100
GS100
GT100
GS120
GT120 DDR2
GT120 DDR3
GT 140
GTS 160
GTX 160

Or something of that sort. What they really ought to do to make it clear which one is better is drop G/GS/GTS/GT/GTX entirely and just change the last two letters. So have it be like this:

GeForce 120 (8400 GS)
130 (8400 GT)
140 (8600 GS)
150 (8600 GT)
160 (8600 GT DDR3)
170 (8700 GT)
180 (8800 GTS)
190 (8800 GTX)

Or some similar pattern. Then it's obvious which one is better. And so long as they released a similar number of chips each generation, you could still clearly see which was enthusiant/performance/etc by looking at the second digit. Also note that it would actually distinguish between the 8600 GT DDR2/DDR3 (9500 GS in 9-serie also has this problem - it's the same chip, just shrunk).

ATI already figured this out - it's pretty clear what the performance level of their 3-serie GPU's is. And while nVIDIA's pattern is decipherable as it is now, why make it more complicated than it needs to be?

 

45nm Q1-Q2 2009. My speculation: GTX 260 type performance on a mobile platform. Triple SLi-280 performance on a single card for desktop systems. Especially if they begin using High-K.

 

Yeah , Codenamed "bigfatliar"

 

What's so hard to understand about the current naming convention?
The previous gen was:
x4xx x5xx low
x6xx x7xx medium medium-high
x8xx x9xx high-end

I can see why they didn't call the new core Geforce 10: try sayin geforce 10080 or 18000... Tha sound quite lame...

I suppose the gtx 260 and 280 follow the same thing with 6 being medium high end and 8 being the high end... I don't quite follow how they would change their naming convention again.

 

I have always sort of, favoured ATI! , but I have no choice I guess... I wish the 3870 was equipped appropriately this past few months... nvidia it is...