Nvidia might skip 800 Desktop naming - GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 990

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/29/2014 02:42 PM | source: | 59 comment(s)

I can't confirm or deny this myself, but there are indications from the graphics card channel at the moment that Nvidia is not naming the upcoming Maxwell GeForce graphics card series in the high-end space a GeForce GTX 870 and 880.

The latest rumor (and it really is a rumor) is that November the 9th Nvidia will announce its new Maxwell GPU architecture. And then just over a week later on September the 19th it will announce two graphics cards. Now the names of the products would be GeForce GTX 970 and 980.

The GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 will be based on NVIDIA's GM204 GPU as stated, based on Maxwell GPU architecture.

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Fender178
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#4901625 Posted on: 08/28/2014 11:40 PM

Very interesting move on Nvidia's part. I wonder if they are going to beef these cards up like a 900 series card should be vs 700 series.

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#4901629 Posted on: 08/28/2014 11:46 PM

Guess I'll be waiting for the 1070GTX or 1080GTX then :rolleyes:

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#4901634 Posted on: 08/28/2014 11:53 PM

ROFL, and with higher part numbers come higher _________?

I love the buildup to GPU releases, they are always fraught with a truckload of manure.

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#4901640 Posted on: 08/28/2014 11:59 PM

Guess I'll be waiting for the 1070GTX or 1080GTX then :rolleyes:

there number could always go back to XXXX then XXX and back to XXXX etc like they have been doing since day one

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#4901646 Posted on: 08/29/2014 12:09 AM

interesting, btw i didn't 1 star this thread, i didn't rate at all but i'll give it 5 now to be fair.

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#4901647 Posted on: 08/29/2014 12:13 AM

ROFL, and with higher part numbers come higher _________?

I love the buildup to GPU releases, they are always fraught with a truckload of manure.

r9-295X vs 980GTX in same row, what a great comparison :grin:

They make it look like some mofo gpu, but in end what GM204?

EDIT: nvm I see he's speculating and why he made this awful chart.

Also " because nothing except 4GB 256b memory configuration, has been confirmed. " then means GM204 only.

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#4901715 Posted on: 08/29/2014 02:49 AM

Come on guys, bigger numbers always mean bigger performance!

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#4901717 Posted on: 08/29/2014 02:53 AM

880, 970, 980 990 etc etc
All im interested in is the GM200, roll on roll on

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#4901724 Posted on: 08/29/2014 03:07 AM

The source.

http://goo.gl/GLzNc

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#4901784 Posted on: 08/29/2014 07:26 AM

Just another name for the same product. Too tired to get excited.

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#4901790 Posted on: 08/29/2014 07:32 AM

Huum, i really dont know how reliable their infos are .. Well maybe Nvidia could call them 900 finally, but they dont skip anything outside the name. ( for what we care lol )

As for the R295x... i absolutely dont see where they get that.. if it is based on this old unfaithfully rumor that the 290x have some hidden shaders disabled.. good luck, this was a pure fake. There's no disabled part on Hawaii chips.

The R9 285 and possibly the 285x are based on Tonga, we can imagine that initially it should have been released after Hawaii as middle end gpu.. ( Well the Tonga name is known since a long time and is present on CodeXL since a while ).

I really dont see on what could been based on hypothetical R925x.. AMD is working on their next series, who should be based on Pirate Island, but for now they keep all really well secret.

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#4901791 Posted on: 08/29/2014 07:35 AM

I just realised, because of such re-numbering, I could possibly claim to have jumped from nvidias 5xx to the 9xx cards. It just reads different I'd say