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Nvidia rebadges another chip
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Caporegime
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rebranding, meh, it happens a lot, a 5770 is not far off a rebranded 4870, but the difference was, it was cheaper, and the number reflected it, anything but the top end is performance wise, a rebrand.
The reason the 9800 was a big deal was that, pretending to be a new high end, to fool buyers into paying again for the same thing.
5870 to 6870, wasn't on purpose, they are redoing the names, though they could have done it better, its clear as day its moved down to midrange price bracket though.
But renaming a 435gt to a 540gt, moving it up in terms of model number, is basically unforgiveable, its an utter joke. But just goes to show what an utter joke Nvidia's "new generation" is.
If they released an overclocked(well higher clock speed) 435gt, it should be called a 440gt, nothing wrong with that, its the pretending to be a new gen thats making rebranding a "bad" thing.
IIRC AMD rebranded the 5470 or something, to 6350's, thats completely understandable, not perfect, but you want a general drop in name, or price, or both when you move an old card into a new range.
The 9800gtx to gts250 wasn't as bad, ok it was pretending to be a whole new gen of products with a significantly different name, but they also turned it into a low priced very midrange card that was competitive on cost, in itself it wasn't a bad move, it was just another in a VERY long list of the same core being used for so many products that made it newsworthy.
The reason the 9800 was a big deal was that, pretending to be a new high end, to fool buyers into paying again for the same thing.
5870 to 6870, wasn't on purpose, they are redoing the names, though they could have done it better, its clear as day its moved down to midrange price bracket though.
But renaming a 435gt to a 540gt, moving it up in terms of model number, is basically unforgiveable, its an utter joke. But just goes to show what an utter joke Nvidia's "new generation" is.
If they released an overclocked(well higher clock speed) 435gt, it should be called a 440gt, nothing wrong with that, its the pretending to be a new gen thats making rebranding a "bad" thing.
IIRC AMD rebranded the 5470 or something, to 6350's, thats completely understandable, not perfect, but you want a general drop in name, or price, or both when you move an old card into a new range.
The 9800gtx to gts250 wasn't as bad, ok it was pretending to be a whole new gen of products with a significantly different name, but they also turned it into a low priced very midrange card that was competitive on cost, in itself it wasn't a bad move, it was just another in a VERY long list of the same core being used for so many products that made it newsworthy.
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Drunkenmaster, the 5770 also offered DirectX 11 support where the 4870 was DX 10.1. The 5770 wasn't just a rebadged card.
I don't see the problem, they have to call it something else to differentiate it to the one with lower clocks. Overclocking mobile GPUs isn't a very common practice (although I do myself! 
) so it kinda makes sense to me.
) so it kinda makes sense to me.
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Oh well, it appears they are rebadging all their mobile stuff, the joke of it is, like with the GT210-240, the mobile 4xxM parts have barely been available(most of them) for a couple months and are barely in any laptops and are being renamed within a couple months to fit in with a new series.
Of course, that gt210-240 renaming to gt310-340 somehow allowed Nvidia to push Fermi to be 4xx series cards. Surprised they didn't do that this time, 5xx naming is an entire joke for the exact same chips, only finally working.
Of course, that gt210-240 renaming to gt310-340 somehow allowed Nvidia to push Fermi to be 4xx series cards. Surprised they didn't do that this time, 5xx naming is an entire joke for the exact same chips, only finally working.
