Archive for January, 2010

Rebranded nVidia GeForce 8xxx actually sold as G, GT or GTS

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

This is a list of rebranded GeForce 8 series GPU, sold as 9 series or even G/GT/GTS series! The same old GPU sold with little modifications but heavy rebranding to make them “new” :-)

Desktop GeForce GPU:

  • GeForce 8300 GS -> G205
  • Geforce 8400M G -> 9300M GS -> G105M
  • GeForce 8400M GS -> G110M -> G210M -> G305M
  • GeForce 8400M GT -> G310M
  • GeForce 8400 GS -> G100 -> G210 -> G310
  • GeForce 8500 GT -> 8600M GS -> 9400 GT -> 9600M GT
  • GeForce 8600 GT -> 9500 GT -> GT120
  • GeForce 8600M GS -> 9500M GS ->9600M GS
  • GeForce 8600M GT -> 9600M GT -> GT120M
  • GeForce 8700M GT -> 9650M GS -> GT130M
  • GeForce 8800 GS -> 8800M GTX -> 9600 GSO -> 9700M GTS -> 9800M GT -> GT130 -> GT220 -> GT230M -> GT240 -> GT240M -> GTS250M -> GTS260M -> GT325M -> GTS350M -> GTS360M
  • GeForce 8800M GTS -> 9600 GT -> 9800M GS -> 9800M GTS -> GTS150M -> GTS160M -> GT230
  • GeForce 8800 GT -> 9800 GT -> 9800M GTX -> GTS240 -> GTX260M
  • GeForce 8800 GT 512 -> 9800 GTX -> GTS150 -> GTS250 -> GTX280M

These GPU has been rebranded many times, the winner being GeForce 8800 GS, the good-old G80 that ruled the world in 2006, and is always sold with die-shrink and little modification as a brand-new GPU :-)

ATI Radeon HD5870 Mobility: OpenCL Teraflop on a laptop

Friday, January 8th, 2010

The new ATI Radeon HD 5870 use the same 5xxx generation chip that offer full OpenCL 1.0 support, equivalent to nVidia’s GeForce 8xxx and later, but break the Teraflop MAD on a mobile GPU with 1120 Gigaflops!!!

Yes you read this well, you will be able to find laptops with 1 Teraflop raw power inside their GPU before spring, it will be at least 20X the processing power of the multi-core CPU of these laptops!

As a reminder, ASCI RED supercomputer broke the 1 Teraflop barrier in December 1996, with 4510 Pentium-Pro processors. Now you may do calculation at an equivalent pace with a laptop, only 13 years later! ouch!