Another renaming scheme from nVidia?

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alg7_munif

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I know it's Fuad but the idea alone makes me sad :(

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10530&Itemid=1
The card that we know as Geforce 9300 based on the G96 will be branded as G100. This reminds me of a Matrox product called G100, a card that came out some 10 years ago and could accelerate Direct 3D, but not OpenGL.

The second rebrand is Geforce 9500 that will be known as Geforce GT120, while the current Geforce 9600 should end up with the Geforce GT130 brand.
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Renaming old products = FAIL

NVIDIA's marketing department needs an enema. Leave product branding alone once you have launched said card. Keep it simple, and don't confuse people by making the old "new" again.
 
I don't think this is a big deal, it's a long tradition with both ATI (8500 -> 9000, 9200), and nVidia (GF2 MX -> GF4 MX). This is proven to work because the Radeon 9000/9200 and Geforce 4 MX were both spectacularly successful in the low-end / mainstream markets.
 
^- Yea, but NV has been renaming their OLD cards as NEW cards already (8800GS=9600GSO, 88GT=98GT, etc.). Add this and it'll be the 2nd time in half a year.
 
lowteckh said:
^- Yea, but NV has been renaming their OLD cards as NEW cards already (8800GS=9600GSO, 88GT=98GT, etc.). Add this and it'll be the 2nd time in half a year.
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^^ 88GT=98GT exactly. Really that's like what might happen with the renamed 55nm 260/280 as 270/290 or not.
 
This reminds of college textbooks - change a few pictures, add a word here or there and presto, instant 2nd edition. Go go go!
 
Fudzilla = online gear news equivalent of the National Enquirer. What til it happens before you get all in an uproar about it.
 
That is great, the happy nvidiot users now can always have the newest hardware without asking mom for spending money, isn't that exciting?

LOL
 
Xeth said:
I don't think this is a big deal, it's a long tradition with both ATI (8500 -> 9000, 9200), and nVidia (GF2 MX -> GF4 MX). This is proven to work because the Radeon 9000/9200 and Geforce 4 MX were both spectacularly successful in the low-end / mainstream markets.
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Minor correction, 8500LE -> 9100. IIRC, 8500 was R200, 9000 was RV250, 9200 was RV280. 8500LE and 9100 were R200 with only one RAMDAC, or something along those lines.

Nothing new here, been done before and it'll happen again. Unfortunately.
 
bangmal said:
That is great, the happy nvidiot users now can always have the newest hardware without asking mom for spending money, isn't that exciting?

LOL
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True and at least they will work without the overheating, microstuttering, copious driver graphical anomalies, and big frame rate dips from that truly "newest" hardware.

LOL
 
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