Saturday, 24 March 2012

Nomenclature

With the absolution of the GeForce 100 alternation of cards, nVidia cards started application a suffix to baptize their category. The GTX, GTS, GT and G suffixes were announced.5 The aboriginal chiffre in the name of a agenda represents its generation, while the additional and third digits represent the achievement of the agenda about to others in the family.

The aggregation followed a allotment arrangement agnate to that apparent beneath for the GeForce FX alternation until the GeForce 9 series.

cf. Nvidia's Achievement Graph here.

This arrangement is alone applicative to the GeForce FX alternation to the GeForce 9 series. GeForce4, GTX200, and added cards chase a agnate pattern.

1: Suffixes announce its achievement layer, and those listed are in adjustment from weakest to a lot of powerful. Suffixes from bottom categories can still be acclimated on college achievement cards, example: 8800 GT.

2: Price ambit alone applies to the a lot of contempo bearing and is a generalization based on appraisement patterns.

3: Shader bulk compares the amount of shaders pipelines or units in that accurate archetypal ambit to the accomplished archetypal accessible in the generation.


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