Do you think ATI/NV will drop the Geforce/Radeon brands someday?

[Barfo]

I wish they would come up with new brand names for their cards, it's not nearly as exciting to go from a Series X to a Series X+1 than to replace your Geforce with a Supernova or something like that.

It's seems so boring to think that in 15 years I'll be buying a Radeon UTHD X9780 or a Geforce GTXXX 101 or something like that.

 

[nitromullet]

Probably not any time soon. Brand recognition is huge, and they've both spent a lot of money to make you recognize their brand.

...then again, Intel dropped the Pentium moniker so it's possible.

 

[RussianSensation]

Eventually they'll run out of GT, GTX prefixes, etc and all the numbers will be used up. That's when I imagine the new branding will arrive. If they named their cards like cars are made, then you could have 2010 GeForce 1 series, 3 series and 5 series for example. This way, when a new gen arrives, it will be 2011 GeForce. The problem is nV would rebadge 2008 cards as 2010 and then the jokes would never stop

 

[phait]

I wish they'd have an easier to understand model heirarchy.

One would assume that a higher number model than another would be better, when in fact sometimes it's worse.

I understand there are 7, 8, 9 series GeForces and there are equivalents... but it can get kinda messy sometimes.

For ATI example say...

5750 = yellow color code for budget/low end
5850 = orange color code for gamer/medium end
5970 = red color code for enthusiast/high end

and then there are of course inbetweens, like
5830 orange but rename it to 5830-L1 for lower-tier 5800 series
5850 orange but rename it to 5850-L2 for medium-tier 5800 series
5870 red = 5870-L3 for higher-tier 5800 series

and of course have a guideline for all this stuff on the box and website