8800GS to get name change to 9600GSO

[thilanliyan]

http://en.expreview.com/2008/0...ecome-geforce-9600gso/

Lol this really is just crossing out the 8...put a 9 and add an O at the end.


RELEASE SOMETHING NEW PLEEEEAAAASE!!!!!!!

 

[BassBomb]

SO CONFUSING

i wish they would just release a 8888GTXS2 and get the naming scheme over with already

 

[thilanliyan]

As someone at XS posted, I'm glad they're not releasing a 3870GTX.

 

[crisium]

The only time I can remember rebranding was the Radeon 8500LE the the Radeon 9100. At least the 9800GTX is a little different than the 8800GTS. This is just ridiculous now. Revisions are one thing, but the 9000 series is really looking like 8800 with a name change and nothing else.

I wouldn't mind an ATI naming system either. 8800GTX = 8870, GTS = 8850, or something. Was there a GSO card in the past? Why must we add another meaningless letter?

 

[AzN]

Nvidia should stick a 256bit bus and call it 9800gs instead. Much more attractive than GSO.

 

[OmegaShadow]

so what would be your guess on the price of this 9600gso? should i wait for that or should i just buy the evga 8800gs $108 AR free shipping.

also what is this new 55mm it's talking about in the article?

 

[bryanW1995]

wait for the 9600gso. I hear that card will be the best 9xxx series yet!!!! It will probably be less than $200, too!

I'm still waiting for the 9800wtf that has been rumored for so long...

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
wait for the 9600gso. I hear that card will be the best 9xxx series yet!!!! It will probably be less than $200, too!

I'm still waiting for the 9800wtf that has been rumored for so long...

I'd rather buy a 9800pwnx2.

Seriously what is it with nVidia's naming scheme. Hopefully it gets a bit better since I think some of the cards have been EOLed but they're still being sold. They should have completely differentiated between G92 and G80 instead of only doing it for some cards.

 

[idiotekniQues]

are they hiring at the nvidia marketing department?

 

[Piuc2020]

GSO sound pretty lame, couldn't they just name it 9600GS?

 

[lookouthere]

There already a rumour product called 9600GS. SO, they have to add a meaningless letter to it

 

[panfist]

So does anyone want to take a guess at what GSO stands for?

These letters make ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING SENSE!

Does it stand for something in Japanese? Latin? Is it still somehow related to a car analogy?

Do you think the brass at nvidia dare each other to release products with ever more retarded names? Is it in some kind of contract?

Maybe it's their first commandment: "Thou shalt be retarded." Or maybe it's "Thou shalt confuse customers."

Is this name the product of the nvidia focus group?

Was the focus group consulted on this?

Holy fucking shit.

<rant over>

 

[error8]

Nvidia is loosing it.

 

[Engineer]

Bah to Nvidia's naming schemes....but the price drop ($89.xx after $30 rebate) is nice.

 

[Keysplayr]

Does everyone care more about what the cards are called? Or how they perform and their cost? Yes, NV's naming scheme has been very confusing lately. New generation will most likely be out soon enough, just not yet.

 

[betasub]

keys, it would just be nice if an NVidia card's name reflected its performance somewhat. And it would cut down on the number of confused posts "9600GSX pwns 8800GSO-384, but loses out to 9800GT-512, or other way round???".

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
are they hiring at the nvidia marketing department?

...you don't even need a high school diploma! This is really crossing the line, though. It's dirty marketing, IMHO. The 8800GS is a great card, but tricking dumb consumers into thinking it's better just because of the new 9600 designation is terrible.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: betasub
keys, it would just be nice if an NVidia card's name reflected its performance somewhat. And it would cut down on the number of confused posts "9600GSX pwns 8800GSO-384, but loses out to 9800GT-512, or other way round???".

Is there a 9600GSX and a 8800GSO?
And are you certain that the 9600GSO will be exactly the same as a 8800GS? It could be, but from that expreview "blog", that is not much to go on. Lets wait a bit and see before commiting hari kari (or however it is spelled)

 

[betasub]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Is there a 9600GSX and a 8800GSO?

<jk> Perhaps I should've use an emoticon?

My point is that they don't exist (yet ), but they don't need to - we already have a ridiculous proliferation of alphabet soup and cross-over between number schemes. For the confused retail buyer, or occasional poster to ATforums, some sort of logical progression in the numbering/suffix scheme would encourage confidence in potential buyers.

 

[Throckmorton]

Why didn't they just switch to 9xxxxx when they moved to G92?

 

[ther00kie16]

Though to be fair, ATI has always been just as confusing at times. The x1900 line included pro, xt, xtx, and gt came out last even though it wasn't as good. And then they came out with the x1950 line with all 4 as well. If you include the all in wonder, they had 9 19x0 cards. And then some x1800gto's were basically the same as a x1900, similar to the x800gto and x800gto2. Not to mention that 9800s lagged the 9800s sometimes and the 9500s were better than the 9600s, etc. And now you have 3850/3870, 3650/3670 and 3450/3470 lines. I doubt many people know the performance levels of those 6 lines. So is a $80 ddr2 3650 better than a $65 gddr3 3470?

EDIT: They also had gto for the x1900 line so that makes 10 cards in that line.
The 8800s: gs, gt 256mb, gt 512mb, gt 1gb, gts 320mb, gts 640mb, gts 512mb, gts 1gb, gtx, ultra. That makes 10 cards. Though it's somewhat less confusing since some of them are just repeats with different amounts of ram.

 

[panfist]

Originally posted by: ther00kie16
Though to be fair, ATI has always been just as confusing at times. The x1900 line included pro, xt, xtx, and gt came out last even though it wasn't as good. And then they came out with the x1950 line with all 4 as well.

I think both ATI and nvidia have dropped having so many suffixes that only correspond to clock speed changes. Now they just release one major model number and "OC" or superclocked or whatever editions. Also...that is 2 generations back for ATI, and nvidia had just as many random suffixes back then.

So is a $80 ddr2 3650 better than a $65 gddr3 3470?

I would say yes, because although the RAM in the 3650 communicates with the core on a 128-bit bus whereas the 34xx series has a 64-bit bus. The RAM in the 34xx series would have to be 2x as fast.

True, the average consumer might not know the exact differences, but if they wanted to find out you can summarize them very easily.

The first digit is the generation, the second is the memory interface, the third corresponds to major differences in clock speed.

 

[CP5670]

GSO? Maybe it means "get screwed over." :laugh:

 

[superstition]

Welcome to what it was like to be a Mac user during the Performa era.

 

[sgrinavi]

Get over it already.

What?s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet