Nvidia has decided to depart from its current product naming strategy and introduce a completely new sequence number for its upcoming GT200 chips.

The new GPUs, also knows as NV60 graphics processors will be called the GTX 260 / 280, according to an article published by Fudzilla. It was previously expected that Nvidia would continue its 1000-series naming tradition, creating a 9900-series brand. The company’s current G92 processors are sold in GeForce 8800GT, 8800GTS512, 9800GTX and 9800GX2 cards.

The GTX add-on now moves to the front of the sequence number and we assume that future mainstream parts will receive a GTS or GT name, while low-end entry-level parts will end-up with the SE name.

back to the times of Ti, MX and FX

May 16, 2008 14:44     

Seems they are going back to their roots before the FX 5900 XT fiasco when they started to copy ATI's suffix naming convention.
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GT200 is not NV60

May 16, 2008 17:19     

GT200 is more like NV55, not NV60. The G80 and G92 (GeForce 8800 and 9800 series) would've been codenamed NV50 had Nvidia not changed the way it names its chips. GT200 is the expected (much more powerful) overhaul of G80/G92, in much the same way NV25 / GeForce 4 Ti was a much beefier NV20/ GeForce 3 and also how NV47/G70/7800 was an overhaul of NV40 / 6800. NV60 would be Nvidia's new clean-sheet architecture for the 2009-2010 timeframe, in time to combat AMD R800 and Intel Larrabee.

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thank god...

May 18, 2008 02:33     

Nvidia naming was becoming a total disaster.. Thank god someone kicked some sense into the marketing department...
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