Launch date scramble, new names for GT200

Andreas G · Guest

It seems AMD wasn't very pleased with the fact that NVIDIA was trying to launch GT200 before AMD got a chance to present RV770 to the world. The GT200 launch seem to be set for middle of June, the 18th to be more precise, which would have coincided with AMD's launch of RV770. AMD therefore decided to speed up its launch by moving it to the 16th, which doesn't really change much, but now RV770 will be first on the market. And yes, GT200 has been renamed from the 9900 series to GTX 200 series. The GeForce 9900GTX will now be GTX 280 and 9900GTS will become GTX 260. We're not certain what NVIDIA will do to the already existing 9800GTX at this time.

The only problem is that the chips are targeting two different price and market segments. RV770 is, and has always been, a mid-range chip, and GT200 the extreme high-end. AMD will compete with GT200 with its dual-chip 4870X2 card, while NVIDIA will compete with RV770 by stripping down GT200 into several more or less crippled versions. Just like it did with G92.

MrWizard6600 · Member Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 2

Fud and VR are claiming that the 9900GTX is going to be the GTX280, not the 9800GTX280, just "GTX280". 9900GT is going to be GTX260...

What im wondering is whats going to happen to the G92b? we know NVidias got it, we know they don't like it as much as ATI likes their 55mm chips, and it was supposed to be named the 9800GT, but if they're killing the old nomenclature, what are they going to do?

I donno, it will be intresting to see what Nvidia choses as its marketing path... I suspect everything will make sense by the end of augest for Nvision2008.

Delph1 · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:00 am Post subject:

I had to check with my source again ... and you're right. I guess I must've misinterpreted him.

9900GTX -> GTX280, 9900GTS - > GTX260

G92b will still be 9800GT, last I heard.

//Andreas
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super dank · Member Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 610

Cool

Skyguy · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 12:25 am Post subject:

So is this the clear new naming system that Nvidia's CEO was promising?

Sheesh.
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Delph1 · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 10:46 am Post subject:

Looks like it. It's not that bad either.

Let's just wait and see what the mid-range and lower-end will be called.

Rumors says it will be something like GTX 200, GT
xxx, LE xxx.

//Andreas
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