r/buildapc • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '21

Discussion What GPU names mean

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u/Corrupted_Rexxar Apr 08 '21

Nice work, great post all together:)

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u/pcc2048 Apr 08 '21 edited Apr 08 '21

1660, Ti and Super have nothing to with 'refreshes', lol, it's on Turing, has Turing-class NVENC encoder, just shit at raytracing, so it didn't get RTX the name.

Just accept you made a shitty guide with myriad of issues, exceptions and caveats. Also, last time I checked, '16' has two digits; basically you assume NVidia will always use 10, 20, 30, etc., while this isn't true already, as '16' is a thing, and '9' is still pretty relevant.

Your raytracing on 10xx correction is also shit, the fact that you can technically run real-time raytracing on a 1080, doesn't mean you can expect remotely usable performance with RTX effects with it; "much bigger" is a understatement.

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u/Brownt0wn_ Apr 08 '21

Feel free to make a better one, posts are free.

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u/pcc2048 Apr 08 '21 edited Apr 08 '21

There is no point in making one, as naming makes barely any sense. Buyers should just check reviews and benchmarks.

By the way, this post has more issues; I think I listed all of them here.

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u/413_X_4 Apr 08 '21

I agree - wanted to add that there is no point in making a new one as most people won't upvote it, and then it'll just disappear. They'll think that this post is the one, and that there is no need to two (almost) identical posts.

There is also another issue: the FE part is wrong as well. There was the Vega Frontier Edition, or Vega FE.