NVIDIA Blames OEMs for GeForce 300 Rebranding

[pr0n Inspector]

LOL. Bit-Tech pulled the article off their site.

 

[Sihastru]

G92
8800GS-9600GSO(same as GS)-9600GSO512(much shower than GS)-GT330(OEM)
8800GT-9800GT(die strink)-GTS240(OEM)-GT330(OEM)
8800GTS512-9800GTX(new pcb same gpu)-9800GTX+(die strink)-9800GX2-GTS150(OEM)-GTS250(same as later models of GTX+)
G94
9600GT-9600GSO(much much slower)-GT130(OEM)
GT21X
G205-G210-GT220-GT240-G310(OEM)-G315(OEM)-G320(OEM)-G340(OEM)

They are only referring to the GF100 not beeing marketed as a GTX300-series card. Anyway, OEMs are refreshing their entire lineup at least once a year, and their customers demand new SKUs every time. So they do have something there.

In your rebranding scheme, you have 9800GX2 as a rebrand of 9800GTX+? How is a dual PCB, dual GPU card a rebrand of a single PCB, single GPU card? Other examples there include variations in the number of available shader processing units and available memory bandwith. Also improved chips were also introduced when they changed the manufacturing process from 65nm to 55nm and now to 40nm. Also of note is the DX10 and DX10.1 compliancy. Some of the models support advanced power management schemes, that the others do not.

There are plenty of differenciating features to warrant most of the model names. Just a couple of your examples are actual rebrands of the same product.

 

[newtekie1]

They are only referring to the GF100 not beeing marketed as a GTX300-series card. Anyway, OEMs are refreshing their entire lineup at least once a year, and their customers demand new SKUs every time. So they do have something there.

In your rebranding scheme, you have 9800GX2 as a rebrand of 9800GTX+? How is a dual PCB, dual GPU card a rebrand of a single PCB, single GPU card? Other examples there include variations in the number of available shader processing units and available memory bandwith. Also improved chips were also introduced when they changed the manufacturing process from 65nm to 55nm and now to 40nm. Also of note is the DX10 and DX10.1 compliancy. Some of the models support advanced power management schemes, that the others do not.

There are plenty of differenciating features to warrant most of the model names. Just a couple of your examples are actual rebrands of the same product.

You have to forgive KainXS, he believes that any card that uses the same GPU(s) regardless of configuration is a rebrand...as long as they are nVidia cards that is...ATi is immune from this logic.

 

[KainXS]

I'm not saying anything is a reband of anything in that which is why I put

not talking about rebranding here just showing how they ended up

, I am just grouping the cards up by the gpu's closest to them, the gpu closest to the GX2 is 128sp version of the G92 because it has 2 128sp gpu's which is why its with the other 128sp cards'

if I was playing the revised/rebranding game I would have done it something like this
G92
8800GS>rebranded>9600GSO>revised>9600GSO512>rebranded>GT330(OEM)
8800GT>revised>9800GT>rebranded>GTS240(OEM)>rebranded>GT330(OEM)
8800GTS512>revised>9800GTX+>rebranded>GTS150(OEM)>revised>9800GTX+>revised/rebranded>GTS250\\\9800GX2

 

[alucasa]

Looks like Nvidia is running outta people to blame.

Soon enough, they will blame their own R&D staff for having sex in company labs.

 

[DaedalusHelios]

ATi's mobile offerings are way too weak to take advantage of DX11 features so it is hardly worth mentioning. Most consumers don't realize that though. Complaints of rebranding would only come from those too ignorant to take 10 minutes on Nvidia's website to compare GPU's. If 10 minutes of research is too much for a consumer then they deserve to be confused.

You can't call a GPU the same thing on a spec sheet when you have lowered its power draw or added a few features. The Nvidia optimus designs are hardly a rebrand and they are mobile GTX 3xx series BTW.

 

[Kantastic]

You have to forgive KainXS, he believes that any card that uses the same GPU(s) regardless of configuration is a rebrand...as long as they are nVidia cards that is...ATi is immune from this logic.

I forgive you.

 

[TAViX]

I bet that the Fermi GPU is actually 2x285 GPUs packed on the same die, and made square, just to fool people in thinking this is a new GPU...Hahahaha. What other explanation can be there, when the GPU size is so huge, power hungry and so hard to manufacture?? )))))

 

[TheLaughingMan]

As my ex-friend once told me, to you Nvidia I say, "Stop blaming other people for your failures. Man up and stop being a bitch about it."

 

[eidairaman1]

Soon Enough Nvidia will start blaming AMD for their failures, Along with certain AMD boards supporting both Crossfire and SLI now.