Naming
There has been, at times, controversy over the naming of GeForce 8 series chips, including due to previous-generation chips being repackaged with minor changes (or possibly none at all) with the new names implying they are derived from the newly introduced GPU chip design featured by the flagship products.
Although overall raw performance, particularly when it comes to total frames-per-second in 3D games, may not appear to justify the larger number (or new name for re-badged chips), newly introduced GPUs nearly always introduce some improvements, often in the form of process shrinkage which yields more performance per watt than previous-generation chips. Another common improvement are additional technologies for such things as decoding compressed video and audio, new instructions to conform to a higher DirectX and OpenGL specification, co-processing, and updated display connectors.
New high-end flagship GPU chips invariably offer improved overall performance over parts of the previous generation.
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Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)