Ginpanther Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I got out of the PC hardware race several years ago (see AshleyAshes's rant that "If it's not new it sucks" which covers a number of reasons why I haven't felt the need to upgrade in years). Things have certainly changed across the board, but the area where the most drastic change has occurred is in the video card arena. What used to be hot, like an NVidia 7800GTX, is now vastly overpowered by modern cards - this I expect. That the model of the new hotness is GT680? That I did not expect. What happened to incrementing model numbers? I feel like somewhere we hit an integer limit and everything rolled over or got scrambled.So while I sort all this out by reading ten or twenty articles at Tom's Hardware, I thought I'd share this old gag that summarizes how I feel right now....PC Hardware is "Toast" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolflich Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I figure at some point someone was like 'you know, our video cards are going to start sounding like phone numbers' so they just lopped off a digit (or two) and started over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginpanther Posted October 20, 2015 Author Share Posted October 20, 2015 I figure at some point someone was like 'you know, our video cards are going to start sounding like phone numbers' Person 1: "So, what did you put in your new gaming rig to run Half Life/3?"Person 2: "I went with the ATI 867-5309" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zytan Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Ah that link cracked me up Before the nice and simple GTX series it confused the ever living shit out of me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshleyAshes Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 The problem with incremental numbers is that with so many GPUs coming out they'd just keep counting and counting. The new Radeon 10 Million will be reviewed against it's competator, the nVidia GeForce 7.8 × 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaedal Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 The problem with incremental numbers is that with so many GPUs coming out they'd just keep counting and counting. The new Radeon 10 Million will be reviewed against it's competator, the nVidia GeForce 7.8 × 10Eventually, I imagine they'll start re-using old ones. Perhaps they'll append a letter to it, or create a new series entirely. Perhaps we'll see GTX 280A in 2018. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luccus Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I think at least Nvidias and Intels name schemes are OK and even pretty similar. Aside from Intels Y,U,P,S,M,K (you useless pudge suck my... kock?) shit.Both begin with the series/generation of the chip used followed by its model number:GTX 680 is an 6th gen card and faster than the 670 but slower than the 690. Pretty much the same applies for Intel.Exemptions for mobile chips whose naming scheme is total crap (there are 800M series with fermi, kepler and maxwell architectures).The big problem being judging performance over different generations:GTX470 < 560Ti < GTX480 < GTX570 < GTX750Ti < GTX580 < GTX760 < GTX660Ti...But that's what benchmarks are for... so there's that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zytan Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 (edited) Eventually, I imagine they'll start re-using old ones. Perhaps they'll append a letter to it, or create a new series entirely. Perhaps we'll see GTX 280A in 2018. Or maybe they'll put 'ti' on the end... :v Edited October 20, 2015 by Zytan Bah, saw Luccus beat me to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshleyAshes Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Or maybe they'll put 'ti' on the end... :vRadeon 7XXX series is so very different from the Radeon HD 7XXX series yet so similar in name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zytan Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Radeon 7XXX series is so very different from the Radeon HD 7XXX series yet so similar in name. It has HD in it, it must be better! :v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysocyon Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 That's why I don't even look at the model number first, I just look directly at the specs and performance comparison charts and figure out which one is the cheapest to run the games I want. :V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luccus Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 15th gen if we're not counting the pre-Geforce stuff like the STG, Vanta, and Riva cards, actually.Yes, i should have specified this, but i meant 6th gen since the launch of the 100 series cards, which were the first ones with the new naming scheme.I will refer to them as "600 series cards" from now on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luka Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My card can't run the newest Direct X. Couldn't play Witcher 3 :cIt's not a bad card, it's just...old. Maybe someday I'll change it.Everything is so stupidly inflated here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginpanther Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 @Luka Getting slaughtered by VAT import tariffs? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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