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In the the title.  Does it have to do with them already having a 800m series?

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no one really knows.

its jsut like how they skipped the 300 series, and intel skipped the ix 1xxx

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In the the title.  Does it have to do with them already having a 800m series?

It's to do with their mobile chips, I believe.

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It's to do with their mobile chips, I believe.

 

It's to do with their mobile chips, I believe.

I bet they wanted to have them on the same series or they didn't have an idea for the next gen mobile chips.  I don't think they wanted to have a 1000s series mobile card.

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It was because they wanted Maxwell to be the same on Desktop as on Mobile. Kepler had 3 Generations (600m,700m,800m) on mobile while Desktop had 2 (600, 700). To prevent confusion they skipped 800.

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my theory I call this the nvidia theory: 9 - nine is 6 flipped over which makes it 69 for some reason people at nvidia like the number 69. 

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Because its Nvidia.

Its the type of company which launches a 970 and 980 before a 960... A type of company which skips a 790... 

Well thereya go.

 

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Because its Nvidia.

Its the type of company which launches a 970 and 980 before a 960... A type of company which skips a 790... 

Well thereya go.

 

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why would they make a 790 in the first place?

its like when people just assume that a 980TI is going to come out. 

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they skipped the desktop 800 series to keep the naming scheme synchronised with the mobile chips

this way when someone says "900" you know both the mobile and desktop chips are on the same architecture

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why would they make a 790 in the first place?

its like when people just assume that a 980TI is going to come out. 

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Well because you are supposed to use all the second numbers so the product seems better.

Pretty sure if the 790 was even a 5% increase in performance, people would still buy it because of it having 10 more in its name

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Well because you are supposed to use all the second numbers so the product seems better.

Pretty sure if the 790 was even a 5% increase in performance, people would still buy it because of it having 10 more in its name

It would probably be a dual GPU card.

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It would be logical for them to jump the 800 series so the Pascal could have the 1000 series name.

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It would probably be a dual GPU card.

Yeah like the 690.

It would have been really cool though, something to better hold the frontier against the 200 series

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On 4/15/2015 at 9:42 AM, Enderman said:

they skipped the desktop 800 series to keep the naming scheme synchronised with the mobile chips

this way when someone says "900" you know both the mobile and desktop chips are on the same architecture

I'm on a 920M and I found out only it and the 910M were Kepler GPUs instead of the 930M (and so on) which were Maxwell.

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