GPU Names Explained – RTX, GTX, RX…
GPU names are pretty complicated – and particularly unfriendly to those not 100% up to date with all the new releases, so in this video I want to give you a breakdown of what makes up both NVIDIA and AMD’s new GPU names.
Let’s start off with the big boy, NVIDIA. They have two current naming schemes, although they are pretty similar, they have “GTX” cards, and “RTX” cards, and those are currently followed by 4 numbers, for example, GTX 1660, or RTX 2080. There is also an extra bit that some cards have, just to make it a bit more complicated, and that’s “TI” or “Super”, for example, GTX 1660TI or RTX 2080 Super.
So what does that all mean? Well, lets start with GTX or RTX. GTX is their “standard” line of cards, whereas RTX cards have dedicated hardware onboard to run their “RTX” suite of features in games – namely RayTraced lighting, but also a form of anti-aliasing they call DLSS. For the average person, these features boil down to slightly nicer lighting, or reflections, or shadows in supported games, and depending on the game, a slightly crisper image or better FPS while not drastically losing image quality.
When it comes to the numbers, those tell you what generation the card is from – so the “16” in “1660”, or “20” in “2080” with the second number telling you what version of the card it is from that generation, with the higher the better, so a “1650” is lower end than a “1660”, and “2060” is lower end than a “2080”.
The TI is NVIDIA’s way of adding more levels of products beyond the specific numbers, often after the original cards are released, but more recently it has been a mainstay of their product stack. TI delineates a card that is better than the “non-TI” version, but not as good as the next number up – so a “1070TI” is better than a “1070” but not as good as a “1080”.
Super is a brand new name they’ve added to again add more product segments, it’s basically a slightly improved version of the original, so the RTX 2070 Super is better than a standard RTX 2070. And to confuse you more, some of the original ones have now been discontinued, those being the RTX 2070 and 2080 non-Super variants.
When it comes to AMD, they’ve changed around their names a fair bit in recent years, so I’ll give you a the last 3 generations or so. Starting off with the newest, the RX 5700 & RX 5700 XT, these hold a similar scheme to NVIDIA, with the first number telling you the generation, and the second telling you the model number, so the RX 5700 is a better card than an RX 5500 – and XT, much like TI, tells you it’s a faster card than the “non XT” version.
Their old product name, “VEGA” was the codename for their architecture, and so is very likely dead now, but since you can still buy the cards, I’ll explain that anyway. You’ve got 3 cards here, starting at the highest end, the Vega 7, then Vega 64 and Vega 56. The name jumps around here because the vega 7 is based on a 7nm architecture, hence the name, whereas the older vega cards had their names based on how many compute units each card had.
And finally, their oldest naming scheme that you can still buy new today is “RX 590”. This follows a more traditional naming scheme, where the “5” in “590” is the generation, and “90” is the model number, with the higher the better. These are a bit tricky still though as an RX 590 is almost the same as an RX 580, which is basically just an RX 480… still complicated. Sorry.
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