NVIDIA seems to play another game of rebrand the cards and relaunch many of the current GPUs under new names in an effort to simplify its naming scheme. You all grew accustomed to the GeForce 8800 and 9800 series as being the king of the hill, and even though it has been dethroned, twice at least, NVIDIA will relaunch it as a part of the new Gx100 family. This means that the trend of the next generation mid-range offering similar performance as the last generation high-end is truer than ever in NVIDIA’s case.
The 55nm G92b core will simply be rebranded, restickered and resold as GeForce GT150, GeForce GT140, GeForce GT130, GeForce GT120 and GeForce G100. Exact specifications were not available at the time of publishing, but we expect more information to arrive soon as the cards are slated for mid-October. Older GeForce 8800 cards will be phased out, no more G80, and the GeForce 9×00 series will simply be replaced.
You better get used to the new GeForce G series, because future models (40nm?) will use the same naming scheme, but with different prefixes; GT and GS have been suggested for the performance and mainstream segments.
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