Nvidia to skip GeForce GTX 800 series and go straight to 900 series

[Powpow]

So just as the title stated Nvidia is skipping the 800 series of their video cards and going straight to the 900 series. This is a bit surprising, considering how they were building hype on how their 800 series will be very power efficent and still quite powerful.

Well, just to not be too confused you guys can check out the full article here:

http://www.kitguru.net/components/gr...mid-september/

Although it was expected that Nvidia Corp. would release its new GeForce GTX 800-series graphics cards for desktops this September and October, the company has decided to skip the GeForce 800 family for desktop PCs and jump straight to the GeForce 900 line of products.

Model numbers of modern central processing units and graphics processing units have been criticized criticized for years since in many cases they barely reflect performance and positioning of products and in many cases cannot even determine their generation. At present Nvidia offers high-end GeForce GTX 700-series of products for desktop computers. At the same time, the company sells GeForce GTX 800M family of products for notebooks. What is rather confusing is that both lineups – the GTX 700 and the GTX 800M – are based on similar chips powered by the Kepler architecture.

In a bid to avoid confusion with its upcoming families of graphics processing units for desktop and mobile computers, Nvidia decided to sell its products powered by the second-generation Maxwell GPUs code-named GM200, GM204 and other under the GeForce 900 moniker, reports VideoCardz...

[pezz]

They arent skipping the video cards. It is just skipping the name.

Good decision from a business point since the 800m series been out for a while now.

[Powpow]

They arent skipping the video cards. It is just skipping the name.

Good decision from a business point since the 800m series been out for a while now.

Yeah thanks for the correction...

They doing it mainly to match up with the new generation of Haswell processors that are coming out soon, so yeah guess it does make sense and would cause less confusion.

[Powpow]

So they released the MSRP today for the GTX 970 which will be around $300, which is really strange since the GTX 770 costs more? Seems the green team is getting greener in one department and less in the other :

The title says it all, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 will retail at an official MSRP of just $299 US. While we earlier speculated a price point of around $349 US, it seems like NVIDIA is going to surprise everyone by selling the GTX 970 for just $299 US which is quite the sweet spot for gamers aiming for 1080P and 1440P resolutions.

Read more here: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-g...#ixzz3DWBaUPvx

[pezz]

Those prices are pretty nice if true.

[semitop]

Waiting for performance numbers. Might bet a 970 instead of the 290 if its all good. Don't like the bandwidth limitation but will see how that works out. The power consumption rumors are looking way better than 290. Also hoping they add adaptive sync