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NVIDIA's new GPUs have horribly confusing names. Are higher numbers better or lower numbers better? A6000? A100? A800? And H > A > V > K, I think? And there's
by dheera 3y ago
NVIDIA's new GPUs have horribly confusing names.
Are higher numbers better or lower numbers better? A6000? A100? A800?
And H > A > V > K, I think? And there's no T100 for Tesla and J100 for Jetson? But there's a Tesla V100 (Tesla Volta 100) and a Jetson Xavier which is neither Jetson nor Xavier architecture but Volta architecture?
Can we please just have monotonically increasing product names in terms of compute capacity and stop jumping around the alphabet?
I know they name architectures after scientists, that's cool, but at least they could do what Ubuntu does with release names and go in alphabetical order.
- riehwvfbk 3y agoIt's even worse than that. L > H > A, but that's for the data center cards. If you want the latest Ada Lovelace core in a workstation card, that's an RTX 4000 Ada Edition series (and it does not use the old Quadro naming). This is different from a Quadro RTX 4000 - that's two generations behind, a Turing. An RTX A4000 is one generation back, an Ampere. Oh, and gaming cards which may give you better performance for less are mashed into the same numbering scheme. An RTX 4070 is a gaming card, and it exist in vanilla, Super, Ti, and Ti Super flavors. And what makes a card "gaming" vs "workstation"? The first have a gaudier-looking heatsink and less memory. Makes sense, right?