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Why do they have this naming… it’s just insane. RTX 5000 Ada… do they just put letters in front or names at the back these days? So confusing and the consumer c
by merb 3y ago
Why do they have this naming… it’s just insane. RTX 5000 Ada… do they just put letters in front or names at the back these days? So confusing and the consumer cards will also be rtx 50xx
- mgaunard 3y agoNvidia always named their microarchitectures after famous scientists: Ada, Ampere, Turing, Pascal, Maxwell, Kepler, Fermi, Tesla. I guess what's unique with Ada is that they're using her first name? Though most official sources call it Ada Lovelace in full.
- NolF 3y agoI believe the issue with Lovelace is that you may find less than PG results typing that on a search engine. Hence using Ada primarily on the marketing. I think the complaint is more with the consumer card being 4xxx but this is 5000 both on the same architecture.
- Tsiklon 3y agoYeah they have different naming conventions on the workstation cards; Quadro RTX 4000 RTX A4000 RTX 4000 Ada Unfortunately they’ve had 3 separate naming conventions in 3 successive generations. Those 4000 series cards are in the same position in the lineup for each generation.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoI just went through this with our Dell rep. The generations aren't totally successive, if you count the non-Quadro RTX 4000 series, which is Ada generation but not part of the RTX 4000 Ada series. Add to it the card variants, and there's a chance that you might still end up with the wrong part if your purchaser isn't careful.
- usrusr 3y agoWas about to post something questioning the "forever" part because my memory only starts to link Nvidia generations with scientist somewhere around Kepler. And that's despite having followed GPU tech a lot more in the years before. But according to Wikipedia it goes back to the days of the Riva TNT: the wiki seems undecided about Fahrenheit-ness of earlier generations, but I'd consider that close enough for "forever".
- formerly_proven 3y agoI think they started with hotness and switched to scientists as a more sustainable source for names https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252900
- omikun 3y agoThe "hotness" were also scientists
- thereddaikon 3y agoYes but they historically do not put the architecture name in the product name like that. They also never use the naming scheme of their consumer graphics cards on their workstation line. They've always had a different system. This card breaks both of those conventions. Workstation cards are supposed to be Quadro. But it looks like they've rebranded the line as "Nvidia RTX". I can only assume that was an intentional move to make their lineup more confusing.
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- deaddodo 3y agoThey 100% used (at least) Tesla and Maxwell in press releases/product SKUs.
- Aardwolf 3y agoIn addition, the name "RTX" is really gaming oriented (raytracing), so seems not a very applicable name to workstations. (Not saying you shouldn't game on a workstation, but a workstation card will be worse at it especially for its price)
- 7952 3y agoProducts like TwinMotion have made ray tracing more important in the workstation market.
- apapapa 3y agoIf its confusing enough, some consumers will pay top dollars for crap