Tuesday, March 10th 2009
NVIDIA OEM GeForce G 100 Series Cards Launched
NVIDIA today stealthy placed on its website the rebranded cards that are going to take over the old GeForce 9 series in the OEM market. Announced without big PR, and not available for individual purchase, the OEM GeForce GTS 150, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GT 120 and GeForce G 100 series are the well known GeForce 9800 GTX+, GeForce 9600 GSO, GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce 9400 GS under new names. All cards are DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1 compatible, and use PCI-Express x16 interfaces. The GeForce GTS 150 has a 256-bit memory interface, 1 GB of GDDR3 memory and 738 MHz/1836 MHz/1000 MHz core/shader/memory clock speeds. The "new" GeForce 9600 GSO has a 192-bit memory interface, 768 MB of RAM and 500 MHz/1250 MHz/ 500 MHz core/shader/memory clocks. Тhe 9500 GT resembling GeForce GT 120 sports 128-bit memory interface, up to 512 MB DDR2 config, and 500 MHz/1400 MHz/500 MHz core/shader/memory clock speeds. Finally the GeForce G 100 look-alike features 64-bit memory interface, 512 MB DDR2 memory and 567 MHz/1400 MHz/500 MHz core/shader/memory clock speeds.
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39 Comments on NVIDIA OEM GeForce G 100 Series Cards Launched
Hell, they've renamed some cards 2-3 times already (and as some speculated it wouldn't be too surprising to see the 8800GT re-emerge as the 330GT or something)
In fact prices are much better for GTS250 cards, except that the old 9800GTX+ cards, just because they are "old" (have been for long in stock) have great MIR deals, whhat puts them a little bit lower than GTS250's without MIR.
Anyone that is going to upgrade from a 9000 series cards wouldn't be any better off if these were completely new cards. If nVidia had redesigned the cards, the would likely have performed almost identically, so anyone upgraded to them would be getting the same performance.
If someone with a 9500GT upgraded to a GT120, it wouldn't matter if it was a rebrand or a new design, the are still going to get next to no performance increase.
On the other hand nVidia you drive me nuts with your lazy branding... no wonder I went with ATi for my last card...
then there is us.... we have to go read more crap on the internet to see which card is which..... basically one huge nvidia commercial for nerds by nerds.
meh...
GTS250 - 9800GTX+ (slightly improved)
GTS240 - 9800GT
GTS150 - 9800GTX+
Huh? :confused: :twitch: My head hurts.
LOOK AT THIS(FROM THEIR PAGE)
THE ORIGINAL 9600GSO
Processor Cores 96
Graphics Clock (MHz) 550 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz) 1375 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 26.4
The NEW GTS130
Processor Cores 48
Graphics Clock (MHz) 500 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz) 1250 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 12
WTF:mad::mad::mad:
THEY CUT THE SHADERS and then gave it DDR2 standard on top of that
O.O
www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9600_gso_us.html
www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_130_us.html
Nvidia stabbed themselves right in the back this time