So many stupid editions of these cards that i lost count and if anyone would ask me what to pick i'd have no clue and would just send him to buy a HD5850 or something... I really miss the days when each vendor only made max 5 models of the cards for 1 series and that was it. Now each of them makes 30 versions of cards that are pretty much the same crap. WHY!?!??!!?!?!? What was wrong with the way it worked before. If you couldn't afford a better model you just went for the one you could afford.



GeForce 4 for example. Ti4200, Ti4400 and Ti4600. Later we got the poor mans GF 4 MX and GF4 Ti4800 which was identical to the Ti4600, just with AGP 8x. And different memory configurations (64 and 128MB). And that was it. Easy as pie.



Now lets look at how it is today (i couldn't be bothered by writing all of them by hand so i copied them from NV page).

GeForce GTX 590

GeForce GTX 580

GeForce GTX 570

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

GeForce GTX 460

GeForce GTS 450

GeForce GT 440

GeForce GT 430

GeForce GT 520



And the thing is, it doesn't stop here. Each subvendor has it's own 50 versions of the same thing with clocks slightly bumped up and another 50 versions with some sort of aftermarket cooling. I like choice but sometimes i just think enough is enough. AMD is no better either if you think i'm bashing NVIDIA. It's just ridiculous and i hate the business model of both companies.

Posted on Apr 25th 2011, 9:28 Reply