NVIDIA inventing hot water. 5 times in a row!
Wednesday, 4. March 2009, 22:59:26
I used to be a great supporter and a happy user of NVIDIA products, owned quite some graphic cards from them but lately, i'm just hating them more and more. First it started with PhysX (you can read about it in my older posts). Now it has escalated to graphic cards themself.
Do you remember GeForce 8000 series? Those were very good card with plenty of power and great image quality (IQ). After that, they've released a refresh, GeForce 9000 series. That's fine, technically speaking. It's a common practice to slightly update existing technology between two major releases.
However NVIDIA didn't stop there. They later released 9800GTX+, which is technically exactly the same thing as 9800GTX (without plus), just made with 55nm manufacture process. Now, NVIDIA again released "new" card named GeForce GTX250. Again, nothing wrong with that, except the fact it's exactly the same as 9800GTX, released 2 series back.
People will think they own the actual latest GPU from NVIDIA, where in fact they're using 3 years old technology under new name.
GeForce 8800GTS = 9800GTX = 9800GTX+ = GTS250 = GTX280M
Usually it's 3 strikes and you're out. NVIDIA seems to insist for much longer...
And no, thats not all. As cherry on top, NVIDIA will be selling the very same 9800GTX cards as GeForce GTX 280M. That's a notebook graphic card (see the "M" behind number). Thats right. A can of whoop ass 9800GTX's all over the place. I think i'll be having nightmares where these 9800GTX cards are chasing me...
Finished? Yeah right. That wouldn't be interesting. NVIDIA is also cutting off hardware support for reviwers and test sites who review these wonderful GTS250 cards as complete rip off.
Yup, if you write bad things about GTS250, NVIDIA will not send you new hardware for testing and reviews. And GTS250 really need some serious bad publicity. It should be selling for 50 bucks, not 130...
And what's happening in the other "red" camp? Nothing this interesting really. AMD will be the first to produce GPU's in 40nm manufacturing process, releasing card refresh with numbers that reflect the range where cards actually belong. And they'll be simply lowering prices for HD4850 and HD4870 graphic cards. Simple and effective. Users know what they're buying. And you're getting new generation technology, not some old crap that has been re-used for 5 times already. I don't care if it's fast enough and if it can compete with similar products from competition. 1 or max. 2 refreshes of same product are ok i guess. But this is just plain wrong and a direct raping of your own customers. Way to go NVIDIA.
I'm just waiting for someone to sue NVIDIA for bad business practices and deceiving of customers.
I guess that shouldn't take long lol...
Do you remember GeForce 8000 series? Those were very good card with plenty of power and great image quality (IQ). After that, they've released a refresh, GeForce 9000 series. That's fine, technically speaking. It's a common practice to slightly update existing technology between two major releases.
However NVIDIA didn't stop there. They later released 9800GTX+, which is technically exactly the same thing as 9800GTX (without plus), just made with 55nm manufacture process. Now, NVIDIA again released "new" card named GeForce GTX250. Again, nothing wrong with that, except the fact it's exactly the same as 9800GTX, released 2 series back.
People will think they own the actual latest GPU from NVIDIA, where in fact they're using 3 years old technology under new name.
GeForce 8800GTS = 9800GTX = 9800GTX+ = GTS250 = GTX280M
Usually it's 3 strikes and you're out. NVIDIA seems to insist for much longer...
And no, thats not all. As cherry on top, NVIDIA will be selling the very same 9800GTX cards as GeForce GTX 280M. That's a notebook graphic card (see the "M" behind number). Thats right. A can of whoop ass 9800GTX's all over the place. I think i'll be having nightmares where these 9800GTX cards are chasing me...
Finished? Yeah right. That wouldn't be interesting. NVIDIA is also cutting off hardware support for reviwers and test sites who review these wonderful GTS250 cards as complete rip off.
Yup, if you write bad things about GTS250, NVIDIA will not send you new hardware for testing and reviews. And GTS250 really need some serious bad publicity. It should be selling for 50 bucks, not 130...
And what's happening in the other "red" camp? Nothing this interesting really. AMD will be the first to produce GPU's in 40nm manufacturing process, releasing card refresh with numbers that reflect the range where cards actually belong. And they'll be simply lowering prices for HD4850 and HD4870 graphic cards. Simple and effective. Users know what they're buying. And you're getting new generation technology, not some old crap that has been re-used for 5 times already. I don't care if it's fast enough and if it can compete with similar products from competition. 1 or max. 2 refreshes of same product are ok i guess. But this is just plain wrong and a direct raping of your own customers. Way to go NVIDIA.
I'm just waiting for someone to sue NVIDIA for bad business practices and deceiving of customers.
I guess that shouldn't take long lol...
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