NVIDIA Reportedly Launching GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12 GB of GDDR6X Memory in April

Stoly said:
The 512 bit spec does not refer to the memory bus width, but the chip architechture, like the Riva128 was 128 bit, the geforce 256 was 256 bit, etc. That was in the ancient days of BS (Before Shaders) :D ;);)
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It was prevalent in the console days as well. Nintendo 8-bit, Genesis 16-bit, Jaguar 64-bit, etc.
 
Dan_D said:
It was prevalent in the console days as well. Nintendo 8-bit, Genesis 16-bit, Jaguar 64-bit, etc.
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To think that it took quite a while for PC to go 64bit.

BTW I don't think the jaguar was really 64bit, that was more like marketing mumbo jumbo.
 
Stoly said:
To think that it took quite a while for PC to go 64bit.

BTW I don't think the jaguar was really 64bit, that was more like marketing mumbo jumbo.
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It wasn't. If i remember right, it was two 32-bit CPU's working in tandem. Similar to how the Turbo Graphics 16 had an 8-bit CPU and a 16-bit video controller. The marketing for all this was something that your average kids bought into, because they didn't know any better. I had pretty much all of those consoles back in the day before I got into computers and learned just how misleading all the marketing crap was. Not that it mattered, I enjoyed playing on these consoles all the same.
 
Stoly said:
To think that it took quite a while for PC to go 64bit.
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To add to what Dan said, this only matters when '64bit' is defined. Back when it wasn't well-defined, and it wasn't easy to call abusers of broadly-accepted conventions to carpet, we saw a lot of liberal uses of technical terms whose meanings we take for granted today in marketing and beyond.

Marketing isn't supposed to be correct, after all; it's supposed to generate sales without generating significant legal risk.
 
LazyGamer said:
To add to what Dan said, this only matters when '64bit' is defined. Back when it wasn't well-defined, and it wasn't easy to call abusers of broadly-accepted conventions to carpet, we saw a lot of liberal uses of technical terms whose meanings we take for granted today in marketing and beyond.

Marketing isn't supposed to be correct, after all; it's supposed to generate sales without generating significant legal risk.
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To put it in Jedi Master Obi Wan terms, "marketing is true from a certain point of view" ;) ;) :LOL::LOL:
 
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