NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and RTX 4080 SUPER

[SOAREVERSOR]

Waiting for the ultra to come back, never understood the "super".

Back in the day you had the vanilla, ti and ultra.
Also liked the vanilla, gt and gtx.

4080 super ti ultra extreme might be new and great for marketing?

They have NEVER been consistent. But then again no PC company has been. If you look at the 6800 series it was 6800, 6800gt, 6800ultra. But even that didn't hold. ASUS released a 6800 but slapped the 256mb of GDDR3 onto it of a GT and called it GAMER (gamers are suckers) tossed in an LED and was off to the races. Then there was the 6800 Ultra Extreme, and then the 6800 Ultra 512mb. There were even rogue 6800gt cards that only shipped with 128mb of gddr rather than the 256 gddr3.

There is utterly no point in trying to make sense of consumer PC hardware naming especially when it comes to gaming. The companies know they are marketing to idiots, especially in the DYI crowd, and so it makes no sense at all. It's all just marketing gibberish for e-peen. Because most people who buy a GPU just go out and buy the most expensive nvidia card they can afford with the most convoluted name.

 

[Chrispy_]

They have NEVER been consistent.

QFT.

I often use https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units for reference, and if you try and spot patterns in naming, or even any kind of consistency as to which silicon goes into each GPU, Nvidia can barely ever manage to anything for more than 2-3 years at most before changing their behaviour.

25+ years of history there proving that Nvidia do their very best to avoid forming patterns in naming, product segmentation etc. Given that several "generations" were just stagnant rebrands of previous generations, it's no surprising they're always playing switcharoo shenanigans with their marketing of products.