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Gunner K2 · Local time: Apr 23, 2006, 05:59 PM

I've noticed something that baffles me. When NVidia releases a new card, they usually release Card and Card Lite. On paper, Card Lite seems to be less powerful than the previous Card. For example, there is now the GeForce 7900 Go laptop GPU. It comes in two flavors: 7900 GTX (Card) and 7900 GS (Card Lite). On paper, the 7900 GS seems to be less powerful than the 7800 GTX, based on this chart at Tom's Hardware whose information was provided by Nvidia http://www.mobilityguru.com/2006/04/...710/page4.html. I don't get it.

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Gunner K2 · Local time: Apr 25, 2006, 03:20 PM

No. My point is the 7900 GS is part of the 7900 family, which is supposed to be a step up from the 7800 and it's more expensive. So it should be better, right? Releasing the 7600/7300 after the 7800 is different. Those are named in such a way that they are clearly not as powerful as the 7800. Such is not the case with the 7900 GS in comparison to the 7800 GTX.

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Gunner K2 · Local time: Apr 25, 2006, 10:50 PM

Yup. I suspected it was a cheap marketing ploy to get the people who don't do their research to simply buy whatever has the bigger number 'cause higher numbers are better, right? And they maintain the illusion by making the low-end versions of the new cards more expensive than the high-end versions of the older cards, which are better.

And now for something completely unrelated: I have heard that all NVidia cards with the G70/71 chipset are incapable of running both high dynamic range lighting and antialiasing at the same time, while the Radeon X1900 or whatever it's called can. So for NVidia users, if they want that, they'll have to wait for the G80 chipset. It's kind of surprising, given how high-end these cards are and the fiercely competitive nature of the video card market.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.