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NVIDIA's Fermi to be productised as the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480

by Parm Mann on 2 February 2010, 10:03

Tags: GeForce GTX 480, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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NVIDIA has revealed that its first consumer graphics cards to use the long-awaited Fermi architecture - codenamed GF100 - will be productised as the GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 480.

Knowing that the cards - or, presumably, the GeForce GTX 480 at least - are likely to usurp AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5000-series as the fastest single-GPU solution around, it may come as no surprise to notice NVIDIA has taken a giant leap in terms of model numbers.

The company's current cream-of-the-crop remains the GeForce GTX 295 - and, along with the GeForce GTX 285, GTX 275 and others, it'll soon be superseded by GeForce 400 series products.

Why the giant leap, and whatever happened to the GeForce 300 series? Cast your memory back to the tail end of 2009 and you'll recall that the GeForce 300 series did make a somewhat lacklustre appearance - arriving as little other than rebranded 200-series GPUs.

We tend to struggle in making sense of NVIDIA's nomenclature - and AMD's for that matter - but that's no reason to try. Could it be that NVIDIA is trying to align its DX10, DX10.1 and DX11 parts under the GeForce 200, 300 and 400 series brands, respectively?

It's possible, or it could be that NVIDIA is suggesting that the upcoming 400-series products will offer double the performance of the 200-series range. We like the sound of that.



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“It's possible, or it could be that NVIDIA is suggesting that the upcoming 400-series products will offer double the performance of the 200-series range. We like the sound of that.”

Nope, just NVidia thinking Bigger number = More sales.
I feel nauseous.
Quite a sad sign that Fermi is a long way off if there's to be another marketing run on renaming existing products as the 300 series in the interim.
snootyjim
I feel nauseous.

Yes, the word ‘productised’ does that to people.

Incidentally, there's a new Disney film out about a princess who gets frogised.
I am guessing that someone at nVidia (maybe even that someone who's forums name begins with “R”) fed back a lot of reactions to the 3xx cards that got released around xmas time……Perhaps they then thought it prudent to jump on a series :)