Wednesday, October 8th 2008
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New 9600GSO Revision Out This Month Features G94 Core
Shortly after hearing of the Ati 4600 series launch, Nvidia decided to rush out a direct competitor for the new HD4650 cards. A new revision of the popular 9600GSO will now be based on the G94 core with a reduced shader count of 48, thus it will lower performance than the current G92 based 9600GSO cards. The new revision will now use a 256bit memory interface which will mean the card will now have 256/512mb of memory. Upon its release later this month, Nvidia plans on keeping the price of the new revision competitive with the Ati HD4650 which is in the $70USD range.
Source:
Expreview
19 Comments on New 9600GSO Revision Out This Month Features G94 Core
This just plain out makes me sick, all these rebadges and revisions. . . . :shadedshu
:shadedshu Its not working for them.
The 8800GS would have competed nicely with the HD4670 without the need for a name change.
The G92 8800GTS would have come pretty close to competing with the HD4850, and the 9800GTX should have been called the 8900GTX IMO, and it would definitely compete with the HD4850.
If they wanted to do die shrinks they could have brought out the 8850GS, 8850GTS, and 8950GTX. Throw an 8850GT in there to fill the gap between the 8850GS and 8850GTS and they would have been set, or just add the + to the names of the die shrunk cards also.
They they could have released the GTX 260 and 280 as the 9800GTS and 9800GTX and made it less confusing. Then wait for the next generation of cards to completely start a new naming scheme.
"customer: oh crap, it's just 48 shader"
"nvidia: oh yes, another costumer get confused. who said we cannot sell that crap, hahahaha"
WTF, nvidia shame on you, do you want people confuse then buy your crap
i think that crap was 9600gt with deeffective core. and it's still useles for htcp because it's use pcie power connector
but for budget gaming rig this might be a good card.
and GAH. things like this are very, very bad as many retailers/e-tailers dont specify which core is in the card.
IMO Expreview just got confused because this card, no matter the name of it, will replace the 9600GSO in the market segment.
My two cents.
On the other hand, they now have a card for every price point: $70, $80, $90,... $150, $160, $170, etc. :p Once the renaming goes through they'll have 2 cards for every price point! Nvidia will dominate! :laugh:
Why did the marketing dept. pixelate that last slide? It's obviously a picture of the card right next to it.
this is so funny though
its more than likely cheaper to make then the other 9600GSO, which used the 8800GT and GTS PCB's most of the time