Nvidia to simplify their product lineup, so you won't need this site anymore...

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 06:36:46 Wed, May 07, 2008

So Nvidia wants Joe "Where's the Any key?" Consumer to better understand the GeForce product range. Nvidia's Vice President of Content Business Development, Mr. Roy Taylor has confirmed that Nvidia is aware of the problem and they are working on a solution.

So what can they do? What control does Nvidia have over the graphics cards that customers purchase? They control the default specifications and features of each card type and the base name of each card type. So basically the only thing that they control which could help the average dude is the name of the card. Maybe numbers are too difficult to understand. Maybe if Nvidia went with a hot sauce naming system (Mild, Medium, Hot) it would be so much easier...

8 Comments

Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:17:48 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

I'm going to buy a hot sauce card ...

Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:14:15 PM

WhistleHeat
n00b

I think we'd need this site anyway, but it's still a very smart and much-needed move. By the way, I bought a 8800GT 512MB (the one from MSI with the big heatsink) about a month ago and I love it. Crysis looks amazing at 1680x1050 and TF2 is maxed out and still doing incredible frame rates. Now if only I could get faster internet...

Friday, May 09, 2008 3:05:54 AM

Duesco
Member

...I can understand the product line just fine now...but if they keep adding GSOs and GSs and GTSs and GTXs and Ultras and...

...oh. I see their point.

Friday, May 09, 2008 5:36:56 PM

-RK
Senior Member

yup.

I like the way ATI switched to just numbers with the HD3xxx series. Maybe NV is taking a hint finally.

Friday, May 09, 2008 8:19:13 PM

Kwipper
n00b

Okay. what can Nvidia do?..

Get rid of the GT, GTS, LE, GX2, ULTRA names for starters

Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:19:59 PM

im still asking, 3 years after buying my first nvidia card, what GT or GTS or GX2 or Ultra or LE or GSO stands for? someone can tell me plz?

Sunday, May 11, 2008 7:52:37 PM

I don't mind the GT>GTS>GTX naming IF THEY REPRESENTED PERFORMANCE. its confusing when 8800GT(s) > 8800GTS 640MB or even better a 9800GTX is just an 8800GTS 512 with higher clocks and loses to a 8800GTX in some cases. Is it really hard to use numbers like 8850 or 8900??

Monday, May 12, 2008 7:34:18 PM

MrWizard6600
Member

GEFORCE 10,000 ---> 100,000. Will last 5 years if done correctly. No matter the card, no matter the die size or technology version, higher number always means higher performance. Start with your enthusiast card of something like the 85,000. "I've got a Geforce 85k". Sounds good. Works well. Joe understands. Even if you need a revision: "I've got an 85.5K", still catchey!!!

oh and make ram size less obvious. Holy shizt I just got a guy who came to me with an Asus 8600GT w/, you guessed it, 1GB ram. He said "PC gaming is dead when evey this machine I modified myself (installed graphics card lawl) cant run modern games at high settings". He trusted me so I was able to get him on an 8800GT 512mb for just over $200.

Nvidia marketing, don't be retards, make my job easier and make a nomenclature that will last a couple years PLEASSEEE.

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