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>Nvidia's naming scheme for their cards is astronomers
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>Nvidia's naming scheme for their cards is astronomers

>AMD's naming scheme for their cards(Polaris and beyond) is stars and galaxies

what did they mean by this?
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/*Lets take the beit, just for fun*/

Obviously NVidia looks up to AMD
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Ayy liumz invasyun konferm, and it came from Polaris
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they're godless fucks who think this is all a computer simulation and not an incomprehensible creation of the Almighty God.
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AMD is lightyears ahead.
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let me tell you something kid. nvidia and AMD are going to design GPU's that will make intergalactic travel a reality.
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>>54900022
It's funny cause it's true.

>efficiency
>tessellation
>HBM
>Next up, ASYNC!
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>>54899986
>>Nvidia's naming scheme for their cards is astronomers
is it actually though
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>>54899986
>maxwell
>pascal
>astronomers
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>>54900127
Nvidia lets AMD be the guinea pig so that it can perfect things the next go-around
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>amd is stars and galaxies, something thats been around for time and time again

>nvidia is astronomers, someone who discoveres something that been around for ages

>amd won
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>pascal
>maxwell
>Kepler
>fermi
>astronomers
They're scientists, but not astronomers.

>Polaris
>Fiji
>Pitcairn
>Tahiti
>stars
Those are fucking islands. There's a reason why they call it the Arctic Islands set of GPUs.
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>>54900740
AMD switched to the stars naming scheme with Poolaris
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>>54900748
Polaris is an Island.
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>>54900769
An island named after a video card named after a star.
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>>54900748
Vega is also an Island, in the Antarctic circle.
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>>54900769
>>54900797
theyre both also stars you donut
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>>54900852
Did AMD referring to them as the Arctic Islands mean anything to you?
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>>54900697
Pretty much.
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