For the past two weeks rumors about mobile GeForce 900M have been circulating around the web. Apparently NVIDIA decided to launch mobile GM204-based parts under 900M series, instead of rumored 800MX. While it makes sense for mobile parts (to differentiate Kepler from Maxwell), it would cause chaos in desktop naming consistency.
Long story short, if NVIDIA didn't rename 800 series to 900 series, we would have desktop 800 and mobile 900M series in relatively short time.
That said, NVIDIA has finally came to conclusion that synchronizing desktop and mobile platform series is crucial to keeping things simple. So technically there are no desktop 800 series, unless of course NVIDIA decides to launch them as OEM exclusive.
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Nope, though the 700M series was basically a 600M series rebrand, but with fewer Fermi cards. The flagship was still GK104, but it would be a bit difficult to fit anything bigger into a laptop's limited thermals.
EDIT: Though I might have misinterpreted that. The 800M series has been out for quite a while, yes. They launched in March and several cards have GK104 and GM107 variants.
Who thinks this is just another "brilliant" tactic to artifically raise prices by another $200 by tricking otherwise sane healthy people into thinking it's really next-next-gen even though it's probably the same 256-bit GM204 garbage we were expecting?
Who thinks this is just another "brilliant" tactic to artifically raise prices by another $200 by tricking otherwise sane healthy people into thinking it's really next-next-gen even though it's probably the same 256-bit GM204 garbage we were expecting?
From what I remember, they skipped the desktop 8000 series for a similar reason, and just decided to move on to their new scheme since it would be a little confusing anyways.
hmm I like the sound of GEFORCE GTX 880. I hope videocardz is wrong
I hope custom designs will come out rather sooner than later. Always wanted a Lightning card, but the 780 Lightning wasn't as good as I hoped it would be and I don't see MSI changing it again, but going with the same design for Maxwell cards.
Maybe EVGA classified is a good choice if it doesn't take EVGA too long to make one. JacobF how about a super small hint?
Their article doesnt make any logical sense because the 800M series has been out for a while now, and on top of that the 860M has both a Kepler and Maxwell version with no name differentiation between them. While the desktop has been on the 700 series still. So Nvidia can keep it this same way where the mobile is 1 series higher all they want and it wont be any different than it has been for almost a year now. Nobody cares.
Since we're approaching 900 series relatively soon regardless if this is a rumor or not (if it is we'll simply have to wait a year for 900 series; it's just a number anyways) I wonder what Nvidia will do with their naming scheme after 900 since 1,000 series would seem a bit weird.
Wasn't 300 series skipped as well? Was there a fuss then as well?
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