GPU names
can be pretty complicated especially for those who are not 100% up to date with
all the new releases so in this content I want to explain both Nvidia's and
AMD's GPU names and give you an idea of what you should be looking for let's
start off with a big boy Nvidia they have two fairly similar naming schemes
they have GT at cards and RTS cards both of which are followed by four number
so GTX 1660 or r-tx 2080 and they can tack on a bit of extra information at the
end which can either be TI or super like a GTX 1660 TI or our next 20/80 super
so what does all of that mean well let's start with GTX or r-TX GTX is a pretty
standard line of cards where's our tanks have dedicated hardware on board to
run there are TX Suites of in-game features namely rate race light Singh but
also their version of anti-aliasing called DL SS those features tend to
manifest in games as better lighting or shadows or reflections or if you're
using the LSS a better rest of clarity of image or less FPS drop when running a
higher resolution when it comes to the numbers the first to tell you which
generation the card is from so sixteen and sixteen sixty are twenty and twenty
eighty and the second number tells you which model number are which a variant
you're looking at with generally speaking the higher the better so a sixteen
fifty is a more low-end card compared to a 1660 and on the RT oxide a twenty
sixty is a Lauren card compared to a twenty seventy the ti is in videos way of
adding more levels of products beyond the specific numbers often after the
original cards have been released the ti delineate a slightly better version of
the card that it's named after so for example a 1070 TI is a faster car than a
1017 but not as fast as a 1080 and super is a brand new name they've added to
their lineup which essentially does the same thing as TI it's if you have a
super card it's better than the original but not as good as the next card up so
you get cards like the RT X 2070 super r20 super to make it more confusing
though they started to discontinue the original versions of cards for example
the architects 2017 and 2018 on super very it comes to AMD they've changed
around their product names a fair bit in the last few years and so I'm gonna
give you the last three generations of cards that you can generally buy either
new or close to newest one is the RX of 50 750 700 XT which follows a fairly
similar naming scheme to in the video the RX is just the product lineup name
the 5 is the generation and then the last three numbers are the model number
again with the higher the better so a 5,700 is a more high-end card compared to
the 5500 and of course the XT does a very similar thing to Ti in that the XD
card is going to be faster than the non XT variants but in theory anyway not as
good as the next step up although those are currently at least at the time of
filming not released yet the previous generation of cards were called Vega based
on the actual code name for the architecture of the chips themselves and well
that's likely a dead product name though because you can still buy them fairly
new I'll explain it anyway in best or worst order we have the Vega 7 Vega 64
and then Vega 56 the reason for the naming discrepancy is that the Vega 7 was
launched significantly after the more original Vegas 64 and 56 s with the 7
referring to the 7 nanometer architecture whereas the original Vegas the 64 and
56 were named based on how many compute units each hand and finally their
oldest naming scheme that you can still buy today is RX 590 with the RX again
still meaning just that the product name with the 5 being the generation and
the 90 being the model number again the higher the better although it is a bit
more confusing because the RX 590 is essentially the same as an RX 580 which is
essentially the same as an RX 480 so it's still pretty complicated and I'm
sorry I can't do anything about that so they have pretty much wraps up then of
the naming schemes of graphics cards if you have any questions do leave them to
comments down below and if I haven't answered but you know the answer and
you're reading through the comments please do answer and it'd be great to help
other people out .
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