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It's just "confusing" because people are used to nvidia naming
I thought it was confusing because this is the 3rd changeup to their naming in recent years.
RX 580 to RX Vega 56 and 64 to RX 5700 to 9070. Yes it's still the intuitive "bigger number better" and "first number is generation", but I can see how people might be frustrated with it whereas nvidia has consistency.
Consistency? Nvidia does the exact same thing, so yeah I guess that's consistent. That reliable numeric with the Nvidia GeForce Titan, Nvidia Titan, and Nvidia Titan RTX (yes those are all very different cards).
And don't even get me started on the workstation Quadro card naming, with the Quadro RTX 4000, RTX A4000, RTX 4000 (Ada generation), and RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell.
Then you have the server cards. L4, L40, A100, H100 then rtx 6000 Blackwell (workstation and server editions are same name but different cards)
It goes on
Don't forget the Radeon VII (announced 2019) that didn't fit in any scheme.
I think they had to make that change because there was a Radeon 9700 back in the ATI days or something. I just wish they hadn't done the RX thing. Because those charts where people compare GPU performance will have legends like:
RX-7600 RTX-5060 RX-9060XT TXT-6060RXT TVX-5040T RTX-4060
and you say "There's no consistency with generation or manufacturer and I'm pretty sure one of those is the part number of a cylinder head for a Toyota Tacoma.
Well good thing the 9070 series is the series that is trying to adopt a more Nvidia-like naming scheme.
Yeah it has two names. But slightly less confusing
The 9070 had two names? You're talking about the regular, the XT, and GRE?
I am not retaking the GRE to use that card.
I'm wooshing. Is that some kind of test where you live?
Yeah it's the exam you take for grad school in the US for some colleges. I think it is the "graduate readiness exam" but it's been a few years and I cant spare 10 seconds to look lol.