Is Path Tracing the future, beyond Ray Tracing?

euskalzabe said:

Since when are core names like GP104 "pretty PR names"? And since when do they have to do anything with die size?
As far as I know they've always been related to product tier segmentation.

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Nvidia has used all sorts of internal chip naming schemes over time - NV20, G71, GT200, GP102. Yes there’s usually a sensible pattern but ultimately they can mean whatever nvidia wants them to mean.

There’s no direct correlation between a chip name and consumer price. That’s determined by performance, features and the competition (or lack of it).

MangoSeed said:

Nvidia has used all sorts of internal chip naming schemes over time - NV20, G71, GT200, GP102. Yes there’s usually a sensible pattern but ultimately they can mean whatever nvidia wants them to mean.

There’s no direct correlation between a chip name and consumer price. That’s determined by performance, features and the competition (or lack of it).

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That is why they make the same card with the same name and use different specs . And just sell them or just forget that 4GB is not really 4GB but 3.5GB because they have no competition.

Pieter3dnow said:

That is why they make the same card with the same name and use different specs . And just sell them or just forget that 4GB is not really 4GB but 3.5GB because they have no competition.

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No that's actually very different. The card name and memory size are consumer specifications and are very relevant to the end user. Nothing to do with chip names.

This video is great, thank you!

MangoSeed said:

Nvidia has used all sorts of internal chip naming schemes over time - NV20, G71, GT200, GP102. Yes there’s usually a sensible pattern but ultimately they can mean whatever nvidia wants them to mean.

There’s no direct correlation between a chip name and consumer price. That’s determined by performance, features and the competition (or lack of it).

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Thank you for a polite and informative response, unlike the useless response Factum left. Then again I've seen this high-horse tone in him many other times.

I can see how the core may not be necessarily indicative of any pattern, but they have used the division I mentioned for a few years now. I guess they can change this whenever they feel like it, but there must be some sort of internal hardware segmentation that we can figure out, they can't just operate on a whim... right?