>2001
>graphics cards have names like "Voodoo 2" or "GeForce 1" or similar
>higher number means newer and faster
>2017
>graphics cards have shit names like "Faggotforce 1780gx" or "Radon rx 460"
>the number tells you fucking nothing about the age and the speed of the card
Where did everything go so wrong?
Gamers ruined it for everyone.
tf when you'r e too attached to arbitrary names
Numbers tell you generation and level 1080 1070 1060. Best better good. Same goes for AMD. Did you not know that?!?!
>nvidia graphics cards are literally still labeled as geforce
>OP labels them as faggotforce while talking up the geforce name
Could you fucking neck yourself you dense cunt?
>GeForce 1
>tells you graphics card is first in GeForce series, which is completley useless
>Geforce 1080
>tells you generation and level of card, which lets you estimate performance and price
How can you not consider the latter the greater naming system.
This, OP is just autistic and wants everything to be shiny and colorful for his own faggot utopia
> 2001
> arbitrary names
> 2017
> different arbitrary names
what ails you op?
>Faggotforce 1780gx
Admittedly, AMD's multi-tiered naming scheme is rather confusing at first but once you got used to it, it was fine. Now they have a new naming scheme and only one tier of it currently released so we'll have to see what comes with Vega to really figure it out again.
nvidia's scheme is very intuitive. the last 2 numbers are always the tier of the card (30-40 =multi-monitor/video streaming card, 50=help my psu is shit but i must game, 60=mid-range, 70=high-end, 80=enthusiast, add ti to any for extra cuda cores, and the number preceding it is the generation (which is sometimes meaningless in some cases if you consider generations to be architectural, i.e 480 vs 580 both being fermeme)
>>the number tells you fucking nothing about the age and the speed of the card
But you're wrong you fucking retard
GTX 1060
>10 generation
>60 speed
RX 480
>RX 4
Generation
>80 Speed
What am I not understanding about this?
>2001: Card tells you it's the first in series by calling itself the geforce 1
>2017: Geforce 1060 tells you that it's the 10th series made under the Geforce Brand, and that it's performance is inbetween the geforce 1050 and 1070, or between a geforce 960 and 1160.
New names have more information to deal with manufacturers releasing a large variety of cards in modern times, neither developments are bad things, changes happened for a reason, OP is an old faggot that can't deal with change.
>What am I not understanding about this?
the problem is that you have to study this shit with the help of the internetz
>not just getting a good enough card to run your monitors at max res
Let the retarded gamers waste their money and subsidize everyone else's hardware by keeping the manufacturers afloat
Ok, would you buy Geforce PCX 4300 or Ti 4200? One of them is twice as fast.
What alternative do you have for companies that release a new GPU series every year?
>nvidia's scheme is very intuitive. the last 2 numbers are always the tier of the card (30-40 =multi-monitor/video streaming card, 50=help my psu is shit but i must game, 60=mid-range, 70=high-end, 80=enthusiast, add ti to any for extra cuda cores, and the number preceding it is the generation (which is sometimes meaningless in some cases if you consider generations to be architectural, i.e 480 vs 580 both being fermeme)
This. AMD has also done this but with different numbers like 50 70 80 90 and even adding an x suffix.
it's actually the professional market that subsidizes everyone else's hardware (eg workstation GPUs)
>1060
>good
9 was skipped
xx80 used to be the best single GPU possible
xx80 used to be $500, not $600 or $700
2017 will probably be "refresh" year again
>What alternative do you have for companies that release a new GPU series every year?
how about a real name, like CPU manufacturers do it?
>Nobody points out that there never was a GeForce 1
Common Sup Forums
Meanwhile in actual 2001:
sort the following from slowest to fastest without checking wikipedia because it's 2001 and there is no wikipedia:
>GeForce2 Ti
>GeForce2 GTS
>GeForce2 MX400
>GeForce2 Ultra
>GeForce2 MX
>GeForce2 Pro
>GeForce2 MX200
Retard, he's saying the 1080 is the high end and the 1060 is the low end
damn it. wikipedia launched in 2001
Sounds like a fun challange
GeForce GTS
GeForce MX
GeForce MX200
GeForce MX400
GeForce Pro
GeForce Ultra
GeForce Ti
1060 is a midrange card.
well fuck, go it all wrong
here is the correct list:
GeForce MX200
GeForce MX
GeForce MX400
GeForce GTS
GeForce Pro
GeForce Ti
GeForce Ultra
fucking
it's funny how they gimp perfectly capable silicon just so they can sell similarly capable cards that can actually do fp64 for exorbitant amounts. I guess they need money to drive development and they know the market that wants them can afford it but damn.
Ti isn't always more cuda cores on the same chip, and performance improvements vary significantly.
1080 and 1080 Ti are different GPU's, GP104 and GP102
1050 and 1050 Ti are the same GPU, GP107
980 and 980 Ti are different GPU's, GM204 and GM200
780 and 780 Ti are the same GPU, GK110
760 and 760 Ti are the same GPU, GK104
750 and 750 Ti are the same GPU, GM107
660 and 660 Ti are different GPU's, GK106 and GK104
650 and 650 Ti are different GPU's, GK107 and GK106
650 Ti and 650 Ti Boost are the same GPU, GK106
560 Ti is confusing because both GF114 and GF110 variations were sold with wildly different performance, but the 560 was GF114
550 Ti was GF116, there was no 550
Before that the last Ti card was in 2003, with the Ti4 series, which were all NV25, with a refresh with higher clocks named NV28 a year later.