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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT outsells entire combined NVIDIA RTX 50 series GPUs at German retailer (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] cron@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago

Don't forget the Radeon VII (announced 2019) that didn't fit in any scheme.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

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.