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From NVIDIA [1] > As far as naming goes, and why 16 series instead of just using 11? Quite simply, we felt that from an overall architecture and performance pe
by taspeotis 8y ago
From NVIDIA [1]
> As far as naming goes, and why 16 series instead of just using 11? Quite simply, we felt that from an overall architecture and performance perspective, TU116 is closer to the other TU10x parts than it is to prior generation GP10x. TU116 has most of the Turing architecture features, including the new dedicated cores for INT32 and FP16 operations, and it also has all of the new Turing shading features, including variable rate shading and mesh shading. And as you see, performance is closer to the GeForce RTX 2060 than it is to the GeForce GTX 1060. In fact just like you said, it performs closest to the GTX 1070, beating it in some games and losing some others. So we ultimately settled on 1660 Ti instead of 1160 Ti. ‘16’ is closer to 20, after all.
[1] https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3445-evga-gtx-1660-ti-xc-review-benchmark https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3445-evga-gtx-1660-ti-...
- imagooddriver 8y agoThat's idiotic. Honestly, I would have upgraded a while ago if I knew what I was buying. They should have called it the 2055.
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y agoCan't do that if you want to sell an overpriced 2050 Ti.
- hnuser123456 8y agoThey probably want to reserve 20xx for RTX cards only.
- taneq 8y agoSo like USB2 becoming USB3, or Java 1.4 going to 5, or Thunderbird going from 3 straight to 5.
- craftyguy 8y agoUSB 2->3 doesn't really help your point, since 2 comes directly before 3 in integer math, so it (3) is literally a logical successor to 2.
- taneq 8y agoIIRC after USB2 came out, there was "USB Full Speed" (12mbps) and "USB High Speed" (480mbps), then they renamed "USB 2.2 High Speed" it to USB3. USB3 is literally USB2.2 with a name change, so I feel like it fits.
- alasdair_ 8y ago> So like USB2 becoming USB3, or Java 1.4 going to 5, or Thunderbird going from 3 straight to 5. Or AngularJS 1.8 going to a complete fucking mess.
- arscan 8y ago...Netscape 4 to Netscape 6. Windows 8 to Windows 10. The i7-8086k processor.
- nextweek2 8y agoNot having Windows 9 was for a very good technical reason, not because of marketing. An unknown number of RegEx strings are looking for Windows 95 and Windows 98 just by looking for 'Windows 9'.