First of all, the new naming scheme for AMD/ATI/Radeon makes pretty good sense and I hope they stick to the same guidelines for the future. They took away letters, but they also added an extra significant digit, but it still makes infinitely more sense then the completely incomprehensible naming scheme brought to us by nvidia.
I won't bother you all with the exact details because I'm sure you are all familiar with it. Basically starting at the 8800GT, the great thinkers at nvidia have thrown out anything resembling logic or reasoning naming their new products, no matter how I look at it.
Was it because they didn't want to gut sales of the 320bit GTS? The price of that product has finally fallen to where it should have been immediately after the release of the GT. They created a lot of hype around the GT and reviewers all over the web were posting an MSRP that was far under-estimated compared to what was actually available. This unwarranted hype also I'm sure led many people to purchase an overpriced GTS. They might have just assumed the GTS was better, or might have only got one because the GT was unavailable from most sources. In my opinion this was a very dirty business tactic on the part of nvidia.
I guess the second question is why should we care. We read reviews online and we know better than to fall for any kind of sales trap--right? It's only your average consumer who probably would buy a video card from best buy at a ridiculous markup in the first place. This average consumer is just getting ripped off a bit more than usual.
I don't care how nvidia chooses to price their products in whatever channels, but can we at least get names that aren't deceptive? I don't think we can. I'm reading a lot of bad things about nvidia lately. First was the ridiculous hype they built up around this generation:
To me their reputation is tarnished very badly but what is a consumer to do when AMD is basically holding a limp dick in its hands. Unless they pull off something crazy with fusion I think nvidia already has the technology to throw down on anything AMD puts out. All they have to do is step up to a 320 or 384 bit architecture which is territory they have already explored, and voila here comes the 9800 ultra that's two times faster than the gx2. Hmm this smells familiar. Didn't the 7950gx2 -> 8800 ultra transition happen in a pretty similar way? Except this time I don't see AMD whipping out another card as good as the 1900xt was.
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There is a counter-argument that if nvidia is so far ahead, why don't they just come right out and crush AMD?
I won't bother you all with the exact details because I'm sure you are all familiar with it. Basically starting at the 8800GT, the great thinkers at nvidia have thrown out anything resembling logic or reasoning naming their new products, no matter how I look at it.
Was it because they didn't want to gut sales of the 320bit GTS? The price of that product has finally fallen to where it should have been immediately after the release of the GT. They created a lot of hype around the GT and reviewers all over the web were posting an MSRP that was far under-estimated compared to what was actually available. This unwarranted hype also I'm sure led many people to purchase an overpriced GTS. They might have just assumed the GTS was better, or might have only got one because the GT was unavailable from most sources. In my opinion this was a very dirty business tactic on the part of nvidia.
I guess the second question is why should we care. We read reviews online and we know better than to fall for any kind of sales trap--right? It's only your average consumer who probably would buy a video card from best buy at a ridiculous markup in the first place. This average consumer is just getting ripped off a bit more than usual.
I don't care how nvidia chooses to price their products in whatever channels, but can we at least get names that aren't deceptive? I don't think we can. I'm reading a lot of bad things about nvidia lately. First was the ridiculous hype they built up around this generation:
Then the driver improvements to the 9600GT that didn't also go the 8800GT+GTS.
To me their reputation is tarnished very badly but what is a consumer to do when AMD is basically holding a limp dick in its hands. Unless they pull off something crazy with fusion I think nvidia already has the technology to throw down on anything AMD puts out. All they have to do is step up to a 320 or 384 bit architecture which is territory they have already explored, and voila here comes the 9800 ultra that's two times faster than the gx2. Hmm this smells familiar. Didn't the 7950gx2 -> 8800 ultra transition happen in a pretty similar way? Except this time I don't see AMD whipping out another card as good as the 1900xt was.
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There is a counter-argument that if nvidia is so far ahead, why don't they just come right out and crush AMD?
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