Read more.Quote:
Industry sources claim that NVIDIA will soon be dropping its GeForce 8000 and 9000 series product names in order to clear up confusion.
Printable View
Read more.Quote:
Industry sources claim that NVIDIA will soon be dropping its GeForce 8000 and 9000 series product names in order to clear up confusion.
I can't help but feel having two (essentially) identical products in the wild with two completely different product names is only going to exacerbate the issue!
That's never stopped them in the past!Quote:
Originally Posted by cptwhite_uk
so what they are really doing is, as they did with some 8 series cards being renamed 9 series - they are going to call 9 series cards 10 series now.. wow i can really see how that is for our benefit :rolleyes:
this is a really good idea..... hold on, I'll need to read it once more because I am confused again. Give me a min.
Why are they bothering, it just means that there will be two identical cards out on the market with different names. I wonder how many posts we will get on here about "what is better the 9800GT or the GT xxx? "
Things aren't really helped either by having two non-identical cards with exactly the same name, ie the 'old' GTX 260 and the 'new' GTX 260 :rolleyes:
Oh, but nvidia can sell more cards this way! People will think those are new models and feel the need to upgrade. Nvidia's marketing department seems to be getting all the funding these days
So basically in an attempt to end confusion about rebranded identical cards, and identically branded although different cards they're re-rebranding the all the cards into the new branding, meaning in some cases that identical cards have existed under 3 different nomenclatures. :surprised:
Phew. Thank god I bought ATI. :)
.. so. is this anything to do with the reliability issues certain nvidia cards had, and now they have changed the production process they want a clean break with no confusion over which cards are a time bomb?
Hmmmm. Interesting hypothesis.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by MadduckUK