nVidia to finally transition to rational naming scheme

[Headfoot]

It looks like all the G9x based chips are going to get shrunk to 55nm and given a Gxx 1xx or Gx 2xx based moniker. For example it appears the 8800 GT will be called something like GT 230, and be 55nm.
http://www.hardware.info/en-US/news/ymiclJqUwpuabZY/New_nVidia_GeForce_GT100GT200_models/

Other news too, apparently nVidia has snuck in 55nm 9800 GT's and 55nm 9600 GT's as well. You can't tell until you get the card and take off the cooler and see if your GPU has a grey border, indicating that it is smaller than the socket on the PCB. Also rumor has it that GT206 will be a die shrunk version of GT200 to 55nm and will be released named possibly GTX 270 and GTX 290, so they are not going into GTX 3xx territory yet. They are expecting a 15-20% savings in energy from the die shrink (and possibly other optimizations?). It is expected GTX 3xx will be the 40nm version.

All I can say is a 55nm 9600 GT that is overclocked as hard as it will go would be insane performance for the dollar. It would be a great deal for a good little PhysX processor too :eek:

[ultima]

yes that is so much clearer now.........

[Headfoot]

It will be the exact same system as ATI just in a different "number range".
Cut out a zero and its the same thing.

For example:
Radeon 485
GTX 230

It makes it parallel and easy to determine which is better (highest number). And I don't hear anyone bashing ATI's naming scheme, so I don't understand the sarcasm. I do believe it will be much simpler for the end user; provided of course they end of line all the 8 and 9 series cards.

[Radiator]

Noone's bashing it , because noone really gets confused by it .
NVidia's old naming scheme was plain stupid , and the new one is more rational , but they are creating even more confusion by renaming EVERYTHING .

[Headfoot]

This is true, but as the saying goes things always get worse before they get better. ;)

[ultima]

that was more my point than anything

i never said i was thrilled with ati's scheme either


my biggest grip over any of the naming is this
people assume that the higher the number the better it is
so they'll choose something like a 9300 over a 8800

and the average joe gets screwed over everytime

[Headfoot]

I suppose that is very true as well.

I've seen things like that happen all the time, especially when Ati went to things like x800 because people saw "800" and bought the 9000 series instead since they didn't realize X stood for "ten thousand". I bet nVidia is trying to avoid a situation like that now, albiet 6 months too late.