After releasing yet another unofficial driver today, NVIDIA kind of revealed the new naming scheme for its video cards. Three lines from the latest NVIDIA driver release 178.15 suggest the new naming scheme:
NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0615.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150"
NVIDIA_G94.DEV_0626.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 130"
NVIDIA_G96.DEV_0646.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 120"
All GeForce 9800 series powered by the G92 GPU will be renamed to GeForce GTS 15x, while the GeForce 9600 and 9500 (G94 and G96) cards will be known as GeForce GT 130 and GT 120. The new naming system is expected to become formal in two weeks time.
36 Comments on NVIDIA New Naming Scheme Revealed
fgsfds, it could go on forever... :shadedshu
Check your system spec before you run your mouth about the idle power, 4870 idles almost the same as the 8800/9800/+ crappies. And a 4870X2 idles at less power than 9800 sli(similar to your sli toys).
As for the "gtx260/280 efficiency" thing, nvidia can not get its "power play" to work properly, the nv cards run at full clock when opening IE and playing video. It still doesn't get fixed in the newest official driver, so it is practically running as much, if not more than the ATI counterparts.
They've been issuing so many cards in so little time and using such confusing names...
I'd have a suggestion for Nvidia - they keep the GT, GTS, GTX nomenclature but change their card names to for example "October 08", "November 08" etc...
That way for example a card issued in December would be the December 08 GT, December 08 GTS.... :laugh:
People complain about the 'rehasing' and the 'renaming..'
Who cares? If the product is new, someone will test it, if it's good, they'll tell you. All you gotta do, is put down your crack pipe, and remember it's name; and then stop buying crack, so you can afford to go buy it, that is, if you remember it's name.
Car manufacturers release a 'new' car model pretty much every year, and I don't mean NEW, I mean rehashed, renamed, rebranded. There are improvements, but not always in the ways YOU might want them. Some years they get better mechanical parts, some years better electronics etc.
G92 was G80 with improvements... any 'performance' loss, was negligible enough in real world conditions, that it justified the improvements made elsewhere, as well as performance, when applicable.
There's no reason for G92 to end, there's no reason for numbers to change.
With all the geeking and nerding we do around here, you'd think people would be on top of things and know whatever it is they need to know, to make an informed decision.
And don't take the moral high ground, as if you're defending the average consumer. If they can't be bothered to research then F U * K them. We have enough ignorance in the world today, no matter how saturated our society is with the digital age of computers; there's really no excuse.
More often than not, this is just a Nvidia bashing bandwagon.
enough my head going to below :banghead: