Geforce 310

Apparently the Geforce 300 series is out. If you haven't had a chance to see this yet, go to the Nvidia website and check out the feature set.

Is this what we can expect from Nvidia for the 300-series? Clearly, this is the absolute entry-level card... but generally the feature set is more or less the same from top-to-bottom of a GPU "series."

So what do you all think? Is this just another example of Nvidia misrepresenting their product lines by misnaming "new" cards? Or is this the type of feature set that we can expect from the 300-series? Remember- there has been no official indication as yet that the "fermi" chip is a gamer.

the geforce gt310 is a joke

here let me explain

gt310=gt210=oc 9400gt (factory OC at that)

its not an improvement. the day nivida starts caring about there bottom line is the day i but one of their lower end cards :P

it doesnt even have dx11 support and isnt sli able

the geforce gt310 is a joke

here let me explain

gt310=gt210=oc 9400gt (factory OC at that)

its not an improvement. the day nivida starts caring about there bottom line is the day i but one of their lower end cards :P

it doesnt even have dx11 support and isnt sli able

aura_enchanted

Yes... I know the Geforce 310 is a joke. But the point is that they named it a 300-series card.

the geforce gt310 is a joke

here let me explain

gt310=gt210=oc 9400gt (factory OC at that)

its not an improvement. the day nivida starts caring about there bottom line is the day i but one of their lower end cards :P

it doesnt even have dx11 support and isnt sli able

aura_enchanted

[QUOTE="aura_enchanted"]

the geforce gt310 is a joke

here let me explain

gt310=gt210=oc 9400gt (factory OC at that)

its not an improvement. the day nivida starts caring about there bottom line is the day i but one of their lower end cards :P

it doesnt even have dx11 support and isnt sli able

ronvalencia

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"]

[QUOTE="aura_enchanted"]

the geforce gt310 is a joke

here let me explain

gt310=gt210=oc 9400gt (factory OC at that)

its not an improvement. the day nivida starts caring about there bottom line is the day i but one of their lower end cards :P

it doesnt even have dx11 support and isnt sli able

hofuldig

It really makes me wonder what the "300-series" will end up being.. since this card is officially the first member of that lineup. Maybe more re-naming on the way?

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"]

[QUOTE="aura_enchanted"]

the geforce gt310 is a joke

here let me explain

gt310=gt210=oc 9400gt (factory OC at that)

its not an improvement. the day nivida starts caring about there bottom line is the day i but one of their lower end cards :P

it doesnt even have dx11 support and isnt sli able

hofuldig

[QUOTE="hofuldig"][QUOTE="ronvalencia"] Before 9400 rename, it's 8500GT/8600 GS i.e. 16 CUDA SPs(G86). Unlike G86 cores, GT210/GT310 has support for DirectX 10.1.

hartsickdiscipl

It really makes me wonder what the "300-series" will end up being.. since this card is officially the first member of that lineup. Maybe more re-naming on the way?

If that happens than nVidia is gonna hit the dirt in no time.

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="hofuldig"] the GT310 is the GT210 its allready been stated several times. Nvidia losing bigtime so they are pretty much cheating to get there new line out. might as well buy an 8600GTS than a GT210. yeah it has DX10.1 but guess what? its out of date and even though ATI did support it there are almost no games that support it. so really its pointlessjernas

It really makes me wonder what the "300-series" will end up being.. since this card is officially the first member of that lineup. Maybe more re-naming on the way?

If that happens than nVidia is gonna hit the dirt in no time.

As they say once you try ATI you never go back

true for me ,since 9800 pro nvidia doesn't exists for me

their underpowered cards and drivers optimized for ''certain benchmarking tests''

NVIDIA thanks but no thanks

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

It really makes me wonder what the "300-series" will end up being.. since this card is officially the first member of that lineup. Maybe more re-naming on the way?

If that happens than nVidia is gonna hit the dirt in no time.

I think to alot of consumers they've already hit the dirt. I for one was a major nvidia user. I had a 6800ultra at launch, went to 7800 gtx sli, 7900gtx sli, 8800gtx sli.. then I decided to give ATI a try, and I got 4890's in crossfire. I love them. I know this is probably old news but after reading this: http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/nvidia-fakes-fermi-boards-gtc/ I dont think I'll use Nvidia cards for a very long time. Unless they pull out some game ending tech, or the mother of all cards, ATI will continue to destroy them. A friend who is in the same boat as me, but still sticks with Nvidia said "Well, even if they did fake it, whats the big deal?" The fact that they had to dupe their consumers is just horrible practice. Im not surprised that they're constantly renaming cards. They have to do something to generate sales. There are alot of people that arent that tech savvy and just think "bigger numbers means faster card!" fm_coyote

And even if they lie does it means that they dont have better graphics solutions? Just put another 4890 in your rig and see where your limits are. AMD proved that they are able to do the same with their HD 4200.

As they say once you try ATI you never go back

pecanin

This claim does not rhyme

If that happens than nVidia is gonna hit the dirt in no time.

jernas

ATI already hit the dirt, they will end up as a co processor in AMDs Vision. Matrox and Nvidia are the last GPU manufacture.

[QUOTE="fm_coyote"]

And even if they lie does it means that they dont have better graphics solutions? Just put another 4890 in your rig and see where your limits are. AMD proved that they are able to do the same with their HD 4200.

[QUOTE="pecanin"]

As they say once you try ATI you never go back

SLIisaownsystem

This claim does not rhyme

If that happens than nVidia is gonna hit the dirt in no time.

jernas

ATI already hit the dirt, they will end up as a co processor in AMDs Vision. Matrox and Nvidia are the last GPU manufacture.

I'm having a hard time seeing how anybody who really keeps up with the PC hardware industry could say that ATI has already hit the dirt. Sure, they are now part of AMD... but since they merged they have consistently had the best price/performance gaming GPUs. Not to mention that they currently have the crown in terms of fastest gaming video card period (5970), as well as the 1st (5870) and 2nd (5850) fastest single-gpu cards on the market. Looks pretty solid to me.

hartsickdiscipl