nVidia GT200 is ready & will launch in 3 month

[Bo_Fox]

Yeah.. G92 usually being the performance number whereas the G90 shoulda been enthusiast! The G90 must have been designed in case the R600/R670 would be faster than an 8800GTX.

It would be interesting to see how many "design" strategies Nvidia had against ATI in 2007. Seeing how Nvidia or any other tech companies do not want to talk about their plans for the future, why not let us know what they worked on in the *past*, just for heck's sake? What was your Plan B? Plan C? LOL.. History buffs would love to know!

Now, that I think about it, the 8800GT was most likely designed to be an 8900GTS with 112 SP's, due out in December (if ATI either released their R670 on 65nm instead of 55nm OR delayed R670 to like Feb. 2008). And the upcoming 9800GTX was supposed to be an 8900GTX, in 512MB and 1GB variants. Plus the 8900GX2 cards would have been released in Jan or Feb at 500-550MHz clocks, a few weeks before 8900GTX (now wrongly called 9800GTX).

There goes a history lesson for you folks! LOL... not that all history teachers are 100% correct, ever!


HONESTLY, I think that Nvidia was so pissed off at ATI's naming scheme when they decided to name those R670 cards the 38xx series, when it was not any faster than a HD2900XT. So, Nvidia just decided to name their sawed-off G92 an 8800GT in spite that it was actually faster than an 8800GTS 640MB, in some kind of vengeance on the naming scheme. There was a small chance that Nvidia actually thought 8800GT sounded better than 8900GT, but that just goes against the pattern from all those years, so I can safely assume that Nvidia was genuinely pissed.

And Nvidia has not yet cooled off, deciding to give their upcoming cards a new generation of 98xx naming scheme (maybe because they did not like how ATI's 38xx cards were selling so well and thought it had too much to do with the number change). WAIT A MINUTE, NVIDIA... ATI actually incorporated several new features including DX10.1 support. What new feature did Nvidia include in their G92 chips that warrants a whole number generation leap? Nothing worthy of mention, except for a die shrink to 65nm, which was never enough for a generation change unless the number of transistors doubled or something like that.

Bottom line: The 9xxx series from Nvidia is the most disappointing one ever, Nvidia. And the most lame one ever.