About the naming of ATI cards...

g0dM@n

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http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2532

So they call it the X1800 now? I think X900 would have made more sense b/c now people who don't know much will see this:

Nvidia 7800
ATI X1800

Nvidia wins by 6000!


Now, when ATI was using only 3 digits it made more sense. You can't really compare a X900 to a 7800 b/c you can tell that the numbers are not similar.

I dunno... I just thought it was funny that they are calling it X1800... sounds stupid to me.

So the 24 pipe version will be X2800???

 

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haha

 

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I don't understand why they go from 7000 to 8000 to 9000 to X800, skip X900, and now X1800?

Where is the consistency? X800 to X1800 for the same amount of pipelines makes no sense at all. Then again, if someone knows the reason tell me!

 

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um are you beinf sarcastic or are you being serious?.

the story goes that an employee of ati said that the card was 2x as good as the x850 so they called it a x1800. dont know how x850 x 2=1800 but o well

 

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The X in the X800 series stood for 10800, so the new name are supposed to mean 11800, because X+1=11, they should have named it XI800, that would made more sense to me, at least the 11 would be in roman numbers. So by Godman reasoning it went like this 7000,8000,9000,10000 and now 11000.

 

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personally, i think it would make more sense if r5xx was the radeon 11000 series, just makes more sense: 7000->8500->9700->10800(X800, nice marketing there ati, get the X out and everyone will come flocking to it in this X-treme day and age)->11000->etc

 

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I think we need a Radeon xvMMM!!! <--- used a script roman numeral converter so don't blame me if its wrong.

Why not just put the damn 10 in there? I always say OS X (as in the letter) and apple users get so whiney about it.

Oh yes x-treme.... what a load of BS that whole thing is.

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EXTREEEEEEEME!!! -Harold & Kumar

I think ATI is sticking with the concept that the "800" at the end will be their high-end lineup. "700" and "600" being mid range, etc.
As for the roman numerals...who knows...but it certainly is X-TREME!

 

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Avg said:

The X in the X800 series stood for 10800, so the new name are supposed to mean 11800, because X+1=11, they should have named it XI800, that would made more sense to me, at least the 11 would be in roman numbers. So by Godman reasoning it went like this 7000,8000,9000,10000 and now 11000.

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Surprisingly, I didn't think of that. Thanks for the clarification, tho!