News - NVIDIA set to launch 'new' GeForce GTX 560 Ti?

[HEXUS]

Revamping GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores, apparently.

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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It looks like this is the third version of the GTX560TI:

http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...sed-gf110.html

[kalniel]

Yeah, together with the non-ti version as well. Clarity, anyone? Seems the same name applies to many different products, while in other cases different names apply to the same product. What are they trying to hide?

[scaryjim]

What are they trying to hide?

Substandard yields on some of their designs? So essentially this will by a GTX470 on a better stepping? Doesn't the GTX560 Ti already have near identical performance to a GTX470? Hard to see where the performance gap for this to slide in to is...

[badass]

Yeah, together with the non-ti version as well. Clarity, anyone? Seems the same name applies to many different products, while in other cases different names apply to the same product. What are they trying to hide?

Why don't they just call all of their GPU's (from the very low end to the GTX580 or whatever it's called) Geforce 500 and require everyone buying any of them to check cores, clocks, memory bus to work out what model they are actually getting.

It's not like it's that different to what they are currently going and makes about as much sense.

[Biscuit]

Why don't they just call all of their GPU's (from the very low end to the GTX580 or whatever it's called) Geforce 500 and require everyone buying any of them to check cores, clocks, memory bus to work out what model they are actually getting.

It's not like it's that different to what they are currently going and makes about as much sense.

i dont understand why they have to keep fiddling with suffixes and prefixes. GPU and CPU manufacturers are as bad as each other with their constantly changing naming schemes 'to make things easier for customers'. Initially they do then they screw the whole thing up with tweaking and adding bits here and there.

Why not just stick with a reference for the brand/model such as Geforce/Radeon/Athlon/Pentium with a shortened acronym, a number for the series, a number for where this particular card sits in the series and then a number for its revision. If they want to stick an extra zero on... fine, im sure people can adjust to that.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

AMD have done this too with the X1900GT which there were two versions,but Nvidia has taken it to an entirely new level!!

Having said that I was after an OEM GT440 1.5GB as it is based on the GTS450 core. It has 144 of the 192 shaders enabled running at 594MHZ , a 192 bit memory controller and uses GDDR3. It is also bus powered.

The retail GT440 has 96 shaders running at 810MHZ,a 128 bit memory controller and uses GDDR5.

The OEM GT440 has around 43 GB/sec of memory bandwidth and the retail one around 51 GB/sec.

[shaithis]

I do see the dilemma....when a new range or core releases, it muddies the water as performance overlaps between the various ranges.

Still, no excuse for releasing cards with the same names at all. Add letters, change numbers.....they have plenty of room for maneuver.

My guess it marketing to help OEMs drop unit costs and make their systems look better VFM.

[Shooty*]

I lost track of GPU naming/ grading around the 8800gt mark. And to be honest, at that point, I was still hoping they'd revert to Voodoo 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 597 at some point.

[EvanJackPenn]

Oh dear. This may muddle my choice of a 6950 over a 560Ti