"Their answer will be: In the renaming scheme we trust.
posted by : Ed, 04 October 2008"

It's more like "Renaming Scam"...

Am I understanding correctly that only the 55mm die-shrinked versions of the 9 series will be renamed? If so, it's not too bad, as it allows the buyer to distinguish between, for example a 65mm 9500GT and a 55mm GT120.

Of course, it's still bad in the sense that it only gives the illusion of a new product to the less-informed buyer.

Nvidia is now a fashion company. Gamers should buy a *new* card every season to stay cool.

I think HP has a lot in common too. New printers come out every year perform very like predecessors but with new model numbers.

These aren't the graphics cards you are looking for...

/Obi Wan

Is Nvidia going to be able to overcome the negative publicity following their current set of anti-consumer practices? Until just a few days ago, I thought I'd just have to wait till they fix their manufacturing process before I'd buy anything from them. Now, I'm thinking it's better just to avoid Nvidia for anything till I read the headline, "Nvidia board fires CEO and clears house -- promises to get back on track..." It is hard to believe they've let things get this bad.

You all assume nVidia is renaming to sell some old stock. Why can't it be as simple as them realising that having 2 concurrent naming schemes with the old cards having a higher number than the new ones could potentially mislead Joe Average into thinking that a 9800 is a newer and better card than 280?
I know Inq loves to flame nVidia but in this case you need to think a little before u flame.

I don't care what Nvidia names their cards because I don't have any plans to purchase a card from them for at least a year. I'm sticking to ATI. At least I can be a bit more confident my ATI card will keep working one year from now. I have an ECS laptop that just died and the repair shop told me it's the GPU. And yes, it's Nvidia.

Wait, your'e not Charlie!

Their answer will be: In the renaming scheme we trust.

it is getting extremely obvious whoever writes these articles hates nvidia, u sound like u wish the company would just die out? If that happens ATI can monopolize the industry, is that how much you love ATI? Nvidia will make a come back, you exxagerate the extent to which they are down, the summer maybe have been for ATI, but we will see.

"The INQ asked Nvidia if it cared to comment as to why it had to renamed the cards. We suggested it sounded like a case of flogging old lamps as new."

Probably 50% right.
The other 50% is them trying to move beyond the bad chip fiasco as they move forward with better materials. 


But truly, just ain't nothing like confusing the masses for a bit more income with little to no investment.

Maybe these are build with GPU's that use the new manufacturing process, you know the ones without the soldering mistakes.

Not sure if this is funny or not.

You lost me when you started talking about 9800 gtx and the GT 1xx part. I still today had no idea what happened in those monthes when those to cards came out. No idea which is faster or newer. Wasn't the first 9800gtx just two 8800 cores on one pcb? That is not a valid reason to go up a series number.

It won't matter to the NV Fanboys what they name the cards as long as they perform well. The fan boys won't even think twice about NV changing names while selling the same cards. Even pointing out the name change will create an uproar with the fanboys. I think I hear one coming now....

well, you've blasted nvidia for having the most confusing naming scheme in the business. now you're blasting them for simlifying their graphics naming system. very nice, any more irony you want to present us today?

they know they have a problem, so they are taking steps to fix it. this is a good thing for us, the consumers.

Yeah, NVidia knows the customer isn't that stupid, right ? [tick, tock, tick]

Oops......

They actually are. Only 0.1% is aware of the game.

I found the new GT260-Core216 a nice buy though. Try and say that new name ten times without stuttering.

So.. somebody is going to sue NV on this naming thing or what. The worst naming scheme perhaps might be a felony in the land of the fray, home of the brawl ?

Excellent job NV. Glad to see you making it easy for the buyer to distinguish between the old cards and the die shrunk cards. It makes it easy for us to get the cooler, easier to Overclock cards. Also simple for HTPC people to get a cool/noiseless card.

Smart business. Inq needs to get their heads examined.

You guys didn't give this one to charlie?


He's been frothing at the mouth for any nvidia slip-ups.

Sylvie kapara, this is exactly what we read La Inq for!

Great article.

their naming is so messed up that it's better to have some control over it and now they're trying to make the names somewhat more understandable in terms of the performance of the cards.

It's actually the funniest comment on Nvidia's rebranding scheme. 


I think I should stop reading anything about nVidia's naming scheme before my head get exploded!

Criminal NVIDIA executives will burn in Hell for eternity!