Wednesday, February 4th 2009
NVIDIA to Roll Out ''New'' GeForce GTS 250 at CeBIT
In the weeks to come, next month to be more precise, NVIDIA will officially rename its G92-based graphics cards series. Amongst the "new" SKUs that have surfaced so far, NVIDIA adds the GeForce GTS 250, or present-day GeForce 9800 GTX+. In a bid to garner support from its partners, NVIDIA issued a circular that includes the following statement:
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GeForce GTS 250 carries over the same specs and features of 9800 GTX+, and hence the same GPU, memory, board, PCB, and thermal solution. AIC's should be confident in purchasing GPU's, PCB's, and other materials, since the only change is a new VBIOS to implement the new branding.The GTS 250 model will be accompanied by yet another rebranding: GeForce GTS 240, present-day GeForce 9800 GT and GeForce 8800 GT. The GeForce 9800 GTX+ was released in July 2008, to compete with ATI's Radeon HD 4850. It was an evolution of the GeForce 9800 accelerator, to which it was built on a newer manufacturing process that facilitated higher clock speeds. NVIDIA is likely to choose CeBIT as the ideal launch-pad for its new series of graphics cards.
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But i may get the GTS 250.:)
1. They have overhead
2. This chip offers the best yields
3. This is the cheapest chip they can make
:shadedshu
As long as the media report this more and more people are informed.
Consider that from a marketing point of view, a line-up of cards all prefixed with 2XX and then a sore thumb 9800 sticking out, it doesn't really mesh well.
I imagine in a perfect world, where card generations didn't end up overlapping, this wouldn't be a problem. But with all the products being released and the timetables involved, that's obviously not the case.
Do you know how difficult is it to explain to a customer that HD3850 256mb ddr3 is faster than HD4350 512 ddr2. How to hell is possible 256 to beat 512 and 3850 to beat 4830. At least with ATI you can explain that at 3850
3 - genearion
8 - class
50 - sub model
How to hell to explain that three models could be the same Card. They think that I`m trying to make them stupid.
But as i stated it is basiclly the same structure
If they make a hardware change (such as a die shrink, changing reference PCB layout, different memory, small GPU update, etc.) - they either change the suffix for the "new" card, or release a new series within the series (ex. X1600 - X1650, X1900 - X1950).
ATI, although fairly guilty of still passing off old hardware as something new, at least incoporate some kind of hardware change that does make the new card deserving of being set apart.
any other examples? Again - I stand by my arguement that ATI makes minor hardware updates and gives the cards a new series name . . . nVidia *typically* makes no hardware changes - except for the sticker change (and sometimes a new cooler).
Sorry, but you don't have a point there, both are guilty of exactly the same, just Nvidia is doing it now and Ati did it in the past, AND (this is a big one) both companies are much more vocal about their chips than in the past, which means Ati did this A LOT more than Nvidia in the past, but you never got told. Nvidia has been vocal about these rebrands, what a poor strategy, if what you want is to fool customers and you tell them what's going on with the new cards. LOL.
Closest "rebrand" on ATI's part that I can think of, is the GPU change through the X1650 and X1650 PRO series. Only hardware change for both series was moving from RV530 to RV535 (only difference was a smaller fab process), no series re-name or suffix was added after the change over. The cards stayed as X1650 and X1650 PRO, respectively.