GeForce 9900 GTX & GTS Slated For July Launch

[Mr.X]

The point I am making is the exact opposite...that the name has nothing to do with the chipset. G80 and G92 both were 8x00 series with some cards overlapping in the exact same name (8800GTS), G92 cards are also 9x00 series, thus, there is no correlation between chipset and name anymore....and so it is no leap at all that g200 could be a 9900 series card. It's still going to have the highest number out there so it doesn't have anything to do with downplaying and you cannot make any inference about performance.

Yes, but the G92 was basically a rehash of the G80, not a whole new core like the GT200 is supposed to be. I would expect Nvidia to introduce a new series for the next big thing after the 8800GTX. The 8 series and 9 series are basically the same thing right now, and associating a completely new core with older ones by sticking with the 9xxx name isn't exactly the best marketing strategy IMO.

Anyway, as long as there is a good enough increase in performance over the 8800Ultra I could care less about the name. My 7900GT is struggling nowadays...