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New nVidia GT200 naming scheme

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Nvidia has dared to do a deistical move in its naming convention. According to several sources close to the company, the new flagship chip codenamed GT200 and D10U-30 and D10U-20 will end up with Geforce GTX 280 brand for the faster card.

There will be one more branded as Geforce GTX 260 and this would be the one that many beleived it will be branded as Geforce 9900GT.

The launch is scheduled for week 25 and it should take place between 16th and 20th. The name comes after Roy Tailor the Vice President of The way its meant to be played said that Nvidia’s names got a bit to complicated.

We remember that John Byrne a Vice president of graphic said the same as ATI lost its XT and PRO suffixes in its names. We believe that Nvidia learned from ATI that this actually did help and therefore they are doing the same, the bigger number means better, at east in their three digit brands.
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Source: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7306&Itemid=1

Facing a new generation of AMD Radeon HD 4800s, NVIDIA dare not neglect, in the June 18, it will launch brand new GeForce GTX 200 series, high-end graphics card to secure hegemony. The code name once was G100, then was GT200, now officially known as D10U, meaning the 10th generation of the Ultra graphics chip, and the product name is also changed from GeForce 9900 family to GeForce GTX 200 family, which means the second generation of Unified Shader architecture, it will market a new market image.

It's said that, GeForce GTX 200 will be launched with two models, including the GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 280, but the price, specifications have not yet announced.
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Source: http://r800.blogspot.com/2008/05/information-leaking-radeon-hd-4800-vs.html

That's a LOT of PCBs: http://hkepc.com/?id=1165&fs=c1h :eek:
 
I really couldn't care less what name they give it! :rolleyes: It's the quality of the product that maters.

Good info on release dates though. Thanks to the OP.
 
So theyre calling everything a gtx with the only distinguishing feature between them being the numbers? :confused: This is gonna be fun for average consumers.

Why cant they just do, gs\gt\gtx\ultra?
 
I wonder if they actually pay people to make up those names. We are not purchasing a car after all but a GPU so a bit more creativity is appreciated. Researching in histrory or mythology for appropriate names would be a much better option making the buyer relate or cause interest wondering why the product was given such a name.
I understand that GeForce and Radeon are brand names but instead of assigning letters like it's a Japanese car model they should actually spend some time thinking of their card's name or if they are paying for such services to fire those people and hire me!!!
 
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I wonder if they actually pay people to make up those names. We are not purchasing a car after all but a GPU so a bit more creativity is appreciated. Researching in histrory or mythology for appropriate names would be a much better option making the buyer relate or cause interest wondering why the product was given such a name.
I understand that GeForce and Radeon are brand names but instead of assigning letters like it's a Japanese car model they should actually spend some time thinking of their card's name or if they are paying for such services to fire those people and hire me!!!
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Yes, I'd love a GeForce Icarus 260.
 
ive got an icarus 280 X2, this is not fake, this is actually what windows says :)

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http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/w5bms/
 
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Didn't Icarus fly too near the sun and his wings began to melt?.

Maybe this is Nvidia's way to tell us that this is going to be a HOT! product :p.
 
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