thatdude90210
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And renamed GT5xx a month later.Jesus Christ, not again! And what the hell are they going to do when they release their Fermi derivatives? Call them GT4xx?
And renamed GT5xx a month later.Jesus Christ, not again! And what the hell are they going to do when they release their Fermi derivatives? Call them GT4xx?
Yay! GT218 rebranding arrives! .. How many months did that take since its launch?
Don't be so mean! After all, they slightly changed the zoom on the products' picture on their website ;-)
Every PC needs good rebranding
Really, last nvidia graphic card series where naming made any sense at all was GF8xxx - and I'm talking about the G8x based parts, not G9x. Since then it's nothing but confusing (GT240 vs GTS240? You think they are almost the same?), just marketing ploys (GTX260M etc.), and rebranding just to have some new products (GTS250, GF310, ...).310 is OEM only afaik. So you won't see this as a retailcard. But yeah, their naming scheme is just... confusing.
some rebranding are not so evil, "9800GTX+" sucks as a name.
off course it was all fucked up since the moment they named the 8800GT as such rather than 9800GT straight away.
And I thought nv was done was done with it's rebranding shenanigans. Sigh......
If a Certain Someone is to be believed, we might see G92 again as well. And I don't think the 275 Co-Op side entry counts for that.
I still don't get why rebranding for the OEM market makes sense. The OEM's themselves obviously won't be fooled and most consumers won't even know the difference so why bother?
Consumers will see machines with "GeForce 210" and machines with "GeForce 310". Guess which one they'll pick...
Some of them might even know that Nvidia's current high-end is the GTX 285/295, so they'll figure that this is newer.
Why would they? I didn't assume my mid-range receiver was better than the high-end last generation version because the model number was higher. People aren't morons. It's fair to assume it's better than the last generation version in the equivalent price range though - an assumption that doesn't hold up here.
Yeah, I never understood why the 9800 GTX+ wasn't named 9900 GTX or something like that.
But Nvidia should really drop all the suffixes and prefixes and stick to numbers.
If you don't have the product, spin. Anyone remember probably the most egregious example, the ATI X800XTX-PE? That coined the term 'Press Edition', I don't think any were actually sold. at all.
-Charlie