Amd may adopt new naming scheme for hd-9000 series. R9-XXXX

[Lanek]

When i see most dont even know what is in their pc... ... and jvc, all the brand you are citing dont exist anymore ( well they have be buy by Nvidia or ATI at a certain point. ) Not sure the name have help them so much.

[jvc]

Man. It's Nvidia Riva TNT2. It's I think 2nd "serious" 3D accelerator released by nvidia. And Voodoo name died because 3Dfx couldn't keep up technology wise. But that doesn't mean those two I've mentioned weren't top brands and top 3D accelerators at their time and they weren't cool.

[Lanek]

Man. It's Nvidia Riva TNT2. It's I think 2nd "serious" 3D accelerator released by nvidia. And Voodoo name died because 3Dfx couldn't keep up technology wise. But that doesn't mean those two I've mentioned weren't top brands and top 3D accelerators at their time and they weren't cool.

Lol, dont know why i was think to another brand with Riva .. dont worry this was more a joke about them dead. I was just remember a work have do sometimes ago, a graph who include all gpu released, by brands since early 90.. just damn crazy to see how many brand was exist and now, there's only 3 left: Nvidia, AMD/ATI, Intel.

[ilkkahy]

I have to say it would be cool to see Riva TNT3 from Nvidia

[Ace123]

back in the day when I bought my brand new k6-2 350 on my overclocking prodigy FIC Va-503+ board, I had a bad ass sounding "Creative Labs SAVAGE 4"

[i found nemo]

Looking at how FX-9590 was named they are doomed to fail anyway. They just cant hold the line. Therefore it doesnt really matter much if the flagship will be named as Strawberry and the low end product HD9980.

lol i have an acer aspire 5515 and the battery name is grape32.

[Glow9]

They have hands down one of the worst naming schemes for consumers when it comes to their processors I hope they don't botch up their video cards. Cause honestly you should care if Joe Blow can walk into a store and know what they are looking at without much issue, good for sales. Good for competition.

[Ace123]

Update: from videocardz

"We might have just learned the final name of the new Radeon Volcanic Islands series. With the data provided by our friends from techPowerUp, we can conclude a list of the upcoming Radeon graphics cards.

Although this information was already confirmed by three different sources I cannot guarantee that AMD will change their plans right before the launch, thus please take it with a grain of salt.

AMD Radeon R-200 Series
When I first wrote about the new Radeon naming I wasn?t really sure if that was true. All we had was an article from Semi Accurate and speculation. Today I can tell you more. Apparently AMD made a survey few months ago asking how to name their next cards. One of the possibilities was Radeon Rx 200. According to the latest information this is in fact the final naming of the new cards. The high-end models will probably end up with R9 prefix, other segments will be named under R8, R7, R6 and R5 labels respectively. The Rx symbol will then be followed by a model number. The next series will start from 200, then move to 300 and so on. So yes, it?s pretty much what we?ve expected, only without the Desktop part.
I will give you an example for Radeon HD 7990 successor, supposedly based on dual Hawaii GPU, also known as Tonga. The AMD Radeon R9 290, as it?s believed to be named, is plain and simple. Things get little confusing if we move to Radeon HD 7970 successor. At this time we don?t know if it?s going to be named R9 285 or 280. If we move down the list to HD 7870 successor we will end up with R8 275. Of course this is just the speculation, all we know for sure is that AMD itself suggested R9 290, so we treat it as a starting point.
With the new naming schema, AMD can position their products in more reasonable way, with a smooth transition from high-end to entry-level segments. That?s important since some leaks suggested few Hawaii variants. If that?s the case, then we shall expect cards named from R9-290 to 270 based on on the same processor, only with disabled units and less memory modules (this would also explain quite a few memory configurations in earlier leak).
Furthermore we should also mention that Radeon R-200 series will include many rebranded GPUs. Starting from Cape Verde and Pitcairn and Bonaire.
AMD Radeon R-M200 Series
AMD is also working on mobile graphics cards. It was earlier revealed by an entry in Catalyst files that mobile parts will receive the M prefix right in front of the model number. So far we know about Radeon R5 M200, most likely based on Sun GPU.
Of course that?s not the end of R-200 series. The new naming will most likely be adopted for integrated graphics, expect R-D200 or R-I200 as well.

I will keep digging into this story, if something new pops up I will update this post or make a new entry."
http://videocardz.com/45537/amd-laun...n-r-200-series

[[XC] Oj101]

Just shoot me now. I've been following graphics cards closely for 15 years and I can't make head or freaking tale out of this. Can someone break it down into even simpler English for me? I must be getting stupid or this really is a stupid naming scheme

[jogshy]

That new naming scheme sucks.
It would be much better to use a convention like this one:

G = gpu discrete
A = apu

Then, use three numbers as NVIDIA.

For instance:
Radeon G190 -> discrete gpu, 1XX series ( == new 1st generation ), 90=dual gpu
Radeon A180K -> apu IGP, 1st new generation, K = unlocked, 80 = high end
Radeon G260 -> discrete gpu, 2XX series ( next generation in 2015 ), 60=medium gamer segment

etc etc

[PatRaceTin]

I wish both AMD & NVIDIA naming are less confusing to the consumer

[Ace123]

I think Amd should just steal car names
Radeon Barracuda
Radeon Thunderbird
Radeon Maverick

Or maybe the next Titan killer should be Radeon Kthulu

[LordEC911]

Or maybe the next Titan killer should be Radeon Kthulu

I still think Iceberg would be a good fit.

[Ace123]

Haha or Radeon Godzilla

[Mechromancer]

I just wanted a damn HD 8970. Dammit AMD!