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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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[–] 56 points 8 months ago (4 children)

They'd probably sell even more of their naming scheme was less confusing.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    How is it confusing?

    Well minus the part where theres 8GB versions with no name differences..

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's confusing because they constantly change their numbering scheme. Nvidia has stayed consistent in the last 17 years

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well yea... But nvidia didn't change their naming scheme because they use it to mislead people.

    A 5080 today is equivalent to what a 1060 used to be when it comes to raw sillicon if I remember correctly.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wym with raw silicone and how is it important?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I mean that the 5080 size, I believe, is about 55% that of the 5090.

    Whereas, when the 10 series launched, the 1060 die size was also at around 55%.

    The percentaches are definitely not correct but you uget the idea. The non-90 dies of today are MUCH more cut down that the old ones.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's just "confusing" because people are used to nvidia naming

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well good thing the 9070 series is the series that is trying to adopt a more Nvidia-like naming scheme.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah it has two names. But slightly less confusing

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    The 9070 had two names? You're talking about the regular, the XT, and GRE?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I am not retaking the GRE to use that card.

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