News - NVIDIA's second GeForce 300-series GPU makes an appearance

[HEXUS]

GeForce 315 surfaces in a number of HP desktops. Ready for another rebranded graphics card?

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[detonator]

Yet another rebrand.. how boring. Can't blame them for keeping quiet over these!

I bet they're considering themselves lucky over the lack of supply of the ATI cards..

[The Jambo]

Gone were the days where you could buy the brand new, just announced NVidia card with a new name and increased price, and actually get something...new.

[GheeTsar]

What a shock!

With each rebranded card my respect for NVIDIA falls further. Fermi is going to have to be damn amazing and at a reasonable price for me to not switch to ATI early next year.

[The Jambo]

Wait, hold on...

This GeForce 310 is a Rebranded Geforce 210...

The Geforce 250 is a rebranded Geforce 9800+

The 9800+ is an overclocked and die shrink of the 9800GTX...

and the 9800GTX was released in april 2008.

So this is technology from 1 1/2 years ago, has better specs than a brand new Geforce 310?

Screw this.

[MadduckUK]

could be worse Jambo, and when they rebrand the 8800gt/9800gt/gts240 it will be

[detonator]

What a shock!

With each rebranded card my respect for NVIDIA falls further. Fermi is going to have to be damn amazing and at a reasonable price for me to not switch to ATI early next year.

I couldn't agree more. I've always been an nVidia person however the fact that they've been slow off the mark and ATI's new cards being awesome might make me purchase an ATI in the new year (especially as the 5970's are going for a mear £480 on play.com).

[borandi]

I couldn't agree more. I've always been an nVidia person however the fact that they've been slow off the mark and ATI's new cards being awesome might make me purchase an ATI in the new year (especially as the 5970's are going for a mear £480 on play.com).

£480 is the lowest price around. Most places are selling them for £540 - that's the sort of cash you'd be expecting to pay for a 5970 at the minute at most other places.

[detonator]

£480 is the lowest price around. Most places are selling them for £540 - that's the sort of cash you'd be expecting to pay for a 5970 at the minute at most other places.

Indeed - which is why it's so tempting to snap one up from Play right now, not sure how long that low price will last. My mate snapped up two the other day... the thought of two 5970's is crossfire is terrifying

[borandi]

Indeed - which is why it's so tempting to snap one up from Play right now, not sure how long that low price will last. My mate snapped up two the other day... the thought of two 5970's is crossfire is terrifying

I hope he has a tri-monitor setup to begin to even harness that power Or he's participating in some epic Distributed Computing project that takes advantage of ATI cards.

[MadduckUK]

I hope he has a tri-monitor setup to begin to even harness that power Or he's participating in some epic Distributed Computing project that takes advantage of ATI cards.

what? folding@home?

get him in the hexus team

[Rollo]

I couldn't agree more. I've always been an nVidia person however the fact that they've been slow off the mark and ATI's new cards being awesome might make me purchase an ATI in the new year (especially as the 5970's are going for a mear £480 on play.com).

On "slow off the mark": You do realize companies operate independently of one another, and that getting to market first with an inferior product might be a short term advantage and long term disadvantage, right? Todays "Holy Cow, it actually runs DX11 and multiple monitors!" might be tomorrows "Yawn. That's ALL it does?". Time will tell.

On re-badging, no one is forcing anyone to buy them, and if people read enough to know what they have, they'll presumably read again before making a purchase. This whole rebranding thing presupposes there's a class of buyers out there who only purchase based on the model number. I think I've got some 9700Pros that will beat 5970s and 8800s that will beat 280s to sell those guys.

[shaithis]

That would be because the vast majority of purchasers are not tech savvy and will expect a model number to mean something. Those of us who are into the tech and follow it closely are the minority, although i am sure you are already aware of that.

I am sure nVidia will "rock the market" again before xmas with offerings of the 340, 350 and 360......just in time for those non-tech-savvy people to upgrade from their 240/250/260 cards!

[detonator]

On "slow off the mark": You do realize companies operate independently of one another, and that getting to market first with an inferior product might be a short term advantage and long term disadvantage, right? Todays "Holy Cow, it actually runs DX11 and multiple monitors!" might be tomorrows "Yawn. That's ALL it does?". Time will tell.

Of course, but I think it would be silly to assume that the top two GPU companies are completly unaware of each others doings/plans.

You are right that time will tell and we have to wait for the 300's to come out to make a fair comparison however I think most people will agree that what ATI have brought out so far is very impressive but they have been unfortunate with supply. Providing chip supplies pick up we could potentially expect a price drop too.. which could further push nVidia here. Just my take on it anyway...

[12GaugeShotty]

Yet another rebrand.. how boring. Can't blame them for keeping quiet over these!

I bet they're considering themselves lucky over the lack of supply of the ATI cards..

Lack of supply? Not sure if you have checked but supplies are in. Even NewEgg.com has 2 Radeon HD 5850 brands in stock (PowerColor, XFX). I'd order one, along with the one I already got a week after it was released, but I don't like the raised MSRP on them. At $259 USD it was a steal but not sure if I want to pay $309 USD for them now.

[MadduckUK]

Lack of supply? Not sure if you have checked but supplies are in. Even NewEgg.com has 2 Radeon HD 5850 brands in stock (PowerColor, XFX).

wrong country tbh

i did see some xfx 5850's at scan yesterday but their website went titsup so i couldn't grab one

edit: its back up and they are still in stock, but they have slapped another £15 on the price