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Am I the only one that's annoyed by the non-alphabetical model numbers? Why not do B100 after the A100, then jump to H (supposing there won't be a C100 or D200
by NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
Am I the only one that's annoyed by the non-alphabetical model numbers? Why not do B100 after the A100, then jump to H (supposing there won't be a C100 or D200 at some point)? Like, wtf Nvidia.
- robin_reala 3y agoAt least they haven’t tried to do a Tesla S, 3, X, Y progression.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThey name their architectures after scientists (Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, Volta, Ampere, Lovelace, Hopper). Thats what the GPU initial stands for. As for the number, the die name counts down to 100 (with GA107, for instance, being a small GPU die and GA100 being the big one), and the big datacenter GPU as a product inherits the 100.
- semi 3y agoit'd be nice if they picked them in alphabetical order
- CooCooCaCha 3y agoI'm surprised nobody at nvidia brought this up
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThe naming scheme goes back to at least 2004 (Curie), and Wikipedia has done the service of alphabetizing it for us: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_of_Nvidia_GPU_microarchitectures https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_of_Nvidia_GP... Also, it occurred to me that Nvidia does sometimes increment the die to 200 (EG GM200, as the Maxwell 100 series was a single small oddball die). Its possible that they "refreshed" the GH100 die and are codenaming it GH200.
- formerly_proven 3y agoAt first they used "measures of hotness", but ran out a few generations in. Coincidentally, degrees of warmth are all named after scientists. So they continued with scientists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(microarchitectur... -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_(microarchitecture) -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_(microarchitecture)
- cout 3y agoWhich scientist is letter B?
- scw 3y agoI recently had occasion to evaluate a database of 1200+ NVIDIA GPUs and can tell you that the only thing consistent about the model numbers is their inconsistency. For example, what is an RTX 4000? It could be the 2018 Quadro RTX 4000, the Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q, or Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile (all Turing cards), but it could also be the RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation (Ada Lovelace card released 2023).