A video card by any other name...

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 12:01:18 Tue, February 17, 2009

The GTS 240 will be upon us soon. This card has a dark secret which has already been revealed. Do not be fooled! For under the guise of a GTS 240 lies an overclocked 9800 GT! (Duh duh duh!)

There is more! The GTS 240 is not alone, for the GTS 250 will also be using this covert tactic to infiltrate your wallet. We have received reliable intel which claims that the GTS 250 is exactly the same as the 9800 GTX+.

We hereby urge all video card consumers to remain vigilant in these confusing times. Warn your friends and neighbors and make sure to practice your counter-insurgency drills daily.

GPUReview High Command HQ

General Steve McBarnes

P.S. There is a 9800 GT Green Edition too.

7 Comments

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:29:06 PM

Casecutter
Member

lol... But it's not funny! The Green team marketing strike again.
While I take it these will still be same 65Nn G92, and 55Nm of the GTX not any newer Fab shrinks. Just rename, pay for new packaging and marketing advertising so nothing except higher prices.
Fool you once shame on them, fool you twice shame... Or how ever Bush aid that!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:43:10 PM

Casecutter
Member

I suppose Nvidia couldn't sit back... http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/02/16/radeon-hd-4890-coming-in-april/1

http://vr-zone.com/articles/ati-rv740--a-40nm-rv770-in-disguise/6334.html?doc=6334

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:00:57 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Seems nVidia consulted mental patients again... and they said RENAME EVERYTHING ... and so they did .

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:55:41 PM

jimday
n00b

link removed :(

Friday, February 20, 2009 1:28:11 PM

antipatiko
n00b

i think former president bush is now running nvidia...

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:21:09 AM

SpacemanSpiff
n00b

nVidia is doing what they can to turn a profit and stay in the game, while it's definately not commendable, you can't condemn them for it either. ATI/AMD has a second business that it turns a profit so the GPU business really only needs to break even. And don't forget that there is the looming threat of Intel entering the GPU space. Love 'em or hate 'em you cannot deny that neither of the other two will be able to truly compete. And Intel hates AMD quite a bit less than they hate nVidia, so this has to be a very scary time where they are going to attempt every odd-ball sceme before the proverbial [explative deleted] hits the fan.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:31:11 PM

-RK
Senior Member

Eh, it's not as bad as the 8800gt>9800gt move. The 9800gt is actually a fair midrange card right now, while the 9800gtx will soon be upper midrange as well. The gtx260/280/285/295 will still dominate the high end for NV.

They really don't need to make any huge architectural changes to get midrange performance because it is cheap enough to manufacture the g92b now.

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