Yeah, so i am throughly confused ATI and Nvidia just came out with new cores for their current graphics card line, but they still have the same names as the previous cards, except ATI, which has a different naming scheme, but the best card they make currently is still better than any of the cards with new cores, yet their HD 3800 cards aren't as good as their HD 2900 (1gb mem) card, yet because of the name, you would think the 3800's are a better card. While Nvidia just released another 8800 GTS with the G92 core and they already had a GTS card, which was had the lowest performance out of all the 8800's, BUT NOW, it has better performance than the 8800 GT........ Yep, i have no idea whats going on rate now.... I will say that at least ATI started out low, sop they can make better cards and the can make their way up from 3800, while Nvidia will seemingly have to go into the triple digits to make any kind of clarity out of what is going on rate now.
yeah i read the Nvidia article about naming new GPU's with old/extinct GPU names. Have to say it confused the hell out of me also.
yeah, but the only problem being, they're not so old, and not so extinct. You can still find them floating around, and the have only been off the market for a month or so.
Not really, they (nvidia) have just released the GT to fill a lower budget gap The way I see it 8800gt - 100-180 uk£ roughly 30% worse than the gts 8800gts - 180-250 uk£ 8800gtx - 250-500 uk£ Probably just so people don't have to go down to a 8600 if they could not afford a 8800 gts
yeah, i get that, but they made new versions of older cards, so they are different cards, but have the same name.
But they are the same basic GPU just tweaked a little to get a different output, i would think it would get even more confusing if the 8800gt was given a 9xxx number don't you?
no, i don't, then everything would make sense, the cards should be named accordingly, if they are better than a current card, then they should have a name that implies that.
