Comdex 2002 Wrapup - AMD, NVIDIA & Transmeta

NVIDIA Changes plans on Ti 4800

NVIDIA's marketing had a meeting to discuss the future of the GeForce Ti 4800 and Ti 4800-SE; it turns out that NVIDIA has reversed their decision and will sell the Ti 4800 as a GeForce4 Ti 4600-8X in North America. For the rest of the world, the Ti 4800 and Ti 4800-SE will continue to be manufactured under the new name.

As we mentioned in our first piece on the new naming, the Ti 4800 is nothing more than an AGP 8X version of the Ti 4600 and the Ti 4800-SE is an AGP 8X version of the Ti 4400. With no difference in clock speeds it's good to see that NVIDIA will be selling the AGP 8X card under a Ti 4600-8X name in North America, but let's just hope that the rest of the world doesn't get too thrown off by the naming system.