[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by TPU

NVIDIA Blames OEMs for GeForce 300 Rebranding
NVIDIA is weeks away from unveiling its GeForce GTX 400 series, which until a few weeks ago, was expected to be the GeForce GTX 300, by the media. Expecting that nomenclature didn't need rocket science. However, NVIDIA changed it with releasing as many as a dozen and a half SKUs in the so-called GeForce 300 series based on existing GT21x GPUs, with not much fanfare. The company got a little candid with Bit-Tech.net in an interview, in admitting that pressure from OEMs forced NVIDIA to 'create' GeForce 300 series, because OEMs wanted "something new" on their specs sheets, if they were to opt for NVIDIA's mGPUs over those from AMD, which already support DirectX 11, under the Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series. Most of these rebrands, according to the company, are specific to the OEMs, and will not be released by board partners to the retail market.

Source: Bit-Tech.net

Aint that a jive.

[Gunslinger]

That's the spin doctors at work.

>> oh look, a 300 series card.

[Neuromancer]

heh heh

"Those big bully OEMs strong armed us...and they prevented us from launching fermi last year..."

[MaadDaawg]

The Bastards

[Gutterz]

Found this threw that link. You may have seen it. Alleged Bench results for the 470 http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/events/...-more/comments



Yesss...germany based Heise.de has just a bit more info, but not a lot.

Read if you know more German than "ich-bin-ein-bit-techer"
Heise Fermi article

They received Benchmark values for the GTX 470
Bios set to:
Shader Core 1255Mhz
GDDR5 (read-write-clock) 1600Mhz

3D Mark Vantage (X-Mode)
GTX 470 7511 points
HD5870 8730 points
HD5850 6430 points
GTX 285 6002 points

3D Mark Vantage (Performance mode)
GTX 470 17156 points
HD5870 17303 points
HD5850 14300 points

Unigine benchmark 4x AA
GTX 470 29fps
HD5870 27fps
HD5850 22fps

Unigine benchmark 8x AA
GTX 470 20fps
HD5870 23fps
HD5850 19fps

[Cecil]

They basically have been using some of the same GPUs in 8000, 9000, 200, and 300 series, with nearly no difference between them. 3 years is a long time to be recycling the same thing