Published: Friday 27th November, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Companies: NVIDIA (All NVIDIA content)
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email to a friendNVIDIA has quietly updated its product pages to include the first graphics card from the GeForce 300-series line.
Don't get too excited, though, as the first 300-series product is a low-end solution that's currently available to OEMs only. Dubbed the GeForce 310, the card isn't based on the upcoming Fermi architecture and is instead a basic GT200-series card with a GPU clocked at 589MHz and 16 stream processors clocked at 1,402MHz.
Look familiar? It should do, as it's little more than a rebranded GeForce 210. As far as we can tell, there's no physical change, despite the massive jump in model number.
Seems as though NVIDIA might be padding out the low-end GeForce 300-series range with rebranded 200-series cards. Meanwhile, the company's first DirectX 11 cards, based on the all-new Fermi architecture and expected to fill the mid-range and high-end segments, are rumoured to have been delayed until the first quarter of fiscal 2011.
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both the 3xxx and 4xxx series are DX10.1 only the 5xxx series is DX11
Ah, thanks. My mistake.Quote
but yeah on topic - this kinda behavior why im switchin to the red team for my next rig...Quote
Everyone reading these forums presumably can read the specs on the box and knows what they're buying.
Seems like much ado about nothing to me.Quote
Personally I think people make too much of this. ATi has rebranded several parts to bring the naming scheme in line with their current generation, AMD has as well.
Have they? I cannot remember any....unless you are calling 4870 > 4890 "rebrading"....which it isn't...is a model number increase that makes sense and is in no way misleading.
Everyone reading these forums presumably can read the specs on the box and knows what they're buying.
Seems like much ado about nothing to me.
While we can, we are the minority. The vast majority of people haven't got a clue what stream processors are, how memory will or will not effect performance for them and probably haven't the foggiest what a memory bus is.
To them model numbers are extremely misleading and an area where nVidia seem to be purposely mudding the water.Quote
Personally I think people make too much of this.
predictably..Quote
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