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I liked ''Ultra'' from back in the day, 8800 GTX and 8800 Ultra etc.
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Yeah, it's just a name but I'd like to see the return of Ultra. 
It's short for Titanium, it's an artefact from the old GeForce 2 days where it meant a slightly better GeForce 2 GTS that was not as good as the significantly faster GeForce 2 Ultra (I know, I was silly enough to buy a GeForce 2 Ti when my GeForce 2 GTS broke and I was very disappointed with the ~10% performance increase in 3DMark).
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atleast gpus look better now 
id rather havea crappier named product and a better looking one
id rather havea crappier named product and a better looking one
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The GF2 Ultra wasn't much faster than the Ti. The only difference between them was a 30MHz bump on the memory clock for the Ultra, which was achievable by just about any Ti through overclocking anyway. All the GF2 cards had exactly the same core configuration, so it was only memory bandwidth seperating them (although most GTS cards only had 32MB of memory, so fell off at higher resolutions).
I’ll be a bit surprised if they don’t shove ‘AI’ on the end for the next generation.
Halcyon days.
I like the Ti branding. The 1080Ti was an absolute beast of a card for it's generation and many of them out-lasted the 2080 series of cards. I have a 3080ti and I'm looking forward to replacing with (hopefully) a 5080ti. 
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the idea was to market it as a half Titan card, the choice was between Ti and Tit.. jensen has mentioned this in an interview somewhere
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Ti cards existed long before Nvidia released the first Titan card though
Yup, around 2002
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Sounds like Jensen is forgetting his own product history!
I know which one of those 2 I'd prefer
I owned a Geforce Ti 4400 somewhere around that time
Think that the gpu i upgraded to after my voodoo 5500 AGP
I had a crazy amount of different GPU's back in the early days of around 1997 to late 2000's
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also.. endorsed by jensenI know which one of those 2 I'd prefer
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They could bring TNT back. Even the drivers were called detonators for quite a while. However, I think that may not be doable these days, but I do suspect the Titan may just be a play on it.
GeForce 5080 TNT sounds so much better than 5080 TI.
That’s where the Ultra first showed up, as the TNT 2 Ultra IIRC. Then there was MX, which may have meant maximum. That obviously makes no sense. LE, which I think was light edition.
Still remember my old Chaintech 5700 LE, which overclocked exactly 100% to equal a full GeForce FX 5700. Clearly no coincidence.
Still, it could be worse, there were FX 5900 and FX 5950 Ultra models.
GeForce 5080 TNT sounds so much better than 5080 TI.
That’s where the Ultra first showed up, as the TNT 2 Ultra IIRC. Then there was MX, which may have meant maximum. That obviously makes no sense. LE, which I think was light edition.
Still remember my old Chaintech 5700 LE, which overclocked exactly 100% to equal a full GeForce FX 5700. Clearly no coincidence.
Still, it could be worse, there were FX 5900 and FX 5950 Ultra models.