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black3ryesterday at 11:40 AM1 replyview on HN

There are GPUs from 3 different generations in that list... Quadro 6000 is an old Fermi from 2010, Quadro RTX6000 is Turing from 2018, RTX6000 Ada is Ada from 2022...

Oh and there's also RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell which is Blackwell from 2025...


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jerfyesterday at 7:07 PM

I gave up understanding GPU names a long time ago. Now I just hope the efficient market hypothesis is at least moderately effective and as long as I buy from a reputable retailer the price is at least mostly reflective of performance.

They've hyperoptimized all these marketing buzzwords to the point that I'm basically forced into the moral equivalent of buying GPU by the pound because I have no idea what these marketers are trying to tell me anymore. The only stat I really pay attention to is VRAM size.

(If you are one of those marketers, this really ought to give you something to think about. Unless obfuscation is the goal, which I definitely can not exclude based on your actions.)