See, for some reason last week, my Device Manager decided to display this. My friend told me the other day that some NVIDIA cards (recent ones) are actually dual cards. But I got this laptop last year in January, but the GeForce 9600M GT was made in 2008, so I'm not sure at the time that NVIDIA was making the 220M GT cards. I looked on their website and the 220M GT card DOES NOT show up at all for retail, yet it is shown when downloading the graphics card drivers from their site.

Does anyone know what to make of this?

The GeForce GT 220M is a relabeled GeForce 9600M GT for OEM laptop sellers. It is for example used in the Medion Akoya P6620 where it uses fast GDDR3 memory. The specs and features are identical to the GeForce 9600M GT.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-220M.20054.0.html

nVidia, the way its meant to be renamed.

at least that was how it was before fermi. The new fermi gpus destroy the rebranded gpus.

WOW lol, I had no idea. I looked all over the Internet for this. What was weird is that I installed an old driver for my card, then I installed a hacked driver for the GeForce 580 GTX and that thing on the Device Manager popped up. I wonder if the new (hacked) driver had unlocked what my card really was all along? Funny thing, too.

Well not really.

Just the way device manager is showing cards depends on drivers.

Back in the day when i had radeon 9700 they were shown as 9500/9700 series in system.

If you want 99,9% accurate gpu identification download gpu-z and similarly for cpu cpu-z those will give tons of information.

they are now GT 460M on the ASUS gaming laptops. Man things rapidly change.