Difference Between GTS and GTX

[sonnytiger]

What exactly is the difference between the GTX and GTS suffixes?

 

[mudkip]

Depends on which card we're talking about?

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Last 2 generations, nothing. The GTS are designed for power saving and make up the larger majority of the low end and entry level cards. The GTX label is reserved for the mid-range to enthusiast level cards. They are designed with the mentality of, "Who cards about power, focus on performance first."

GTX = focus on the performance
GTS = focus on power consumption

Now, 8000 series and older....that depended on the card, company, generation....ignore them and never buy cards that old.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

it use to be

LE GS GT GTS GTX ULTRA and there was a GTO in there as well basically it just determines where the gpu falls in the market

GTX = mid to high end
ULTRA = enthusiast high end aka $1000 gpu
GTS = mid range good price / performance etc etc
GT = low ti mid range
GS = low
LE = turbo cache utter garbage super crap

 

[entropy13]

it use to be

LE GS GT GTS GTX ULTRA and there was a GTO in there as well basically it just determines where the gpu falls in the market

GTX = mid to high end
ULTRA = enthusiast high end aka $1000 gpu
GTS = mid range good price / performance etc etc
GT = low ti mid range
GS = low
LE = turbo cache utter garbage super crap

There's also cards with no suffix at all (GeForce 6600 v. 6600 GT)

If we're talking about the last two generations, it's G, GT, GTS, GTX, from low-range to high-end. These suffixes aims to confuse customers, because there are no differences in the number anyway...oh wait.

 

[wolf]

GTX = mid to high end
ULTRA = enthusiast high end aka $1000 gpu
GTS = mid range good price / performance etc etc
GT = low ti mid range
GS = low
LE = turbo cache utter garbage super crap

pretty much spot on, nowadays I'd hold GTX and Ultra in roughly the same regard, however they havent made an Ultra card in some time now, last was 8800Ultra I believe.

in between GT and GS there were sometimes 'vanilla' cards which had no suffix/prefix at all, like 6600 and 6800.

and lets not forget XT, used to denote the TOP end ATi cards of the era, it was the reverse with Nvidia, Used only for the bottom of the barrel. I learned that the hard way with an FX5600XT.

 

[sonnytiger]

Thanks guys, for some context im talkin about my gpu (GTS 250) with 1GB VRAM

 

[AltecV1]

Thanks guys, for some context im talkin about my gpu (GTS 250) with 1GB VRAM

oh you mean the 9800+ GTX

 

[wolf]

Thanks guys, for some context im talkin about my gpu (GTS 250) with 1GB VRAM

lol, that card/core has had a few of the prefix/suffixes.

essentially the fully unlocked (all 128 sp's) core started its life as an 8800GTS, then moved on to be the 9800GTX, getting higher clockspeeds all around. later it became the 9800GTX+ apon the transition from 65nm to 55nm, and againt got higher core/shader clockspeeds.

then when Nvidia made their GTX200 series cards, the GT200 core wasn't really viable to try and scale down to the performance they wanted for a midrange card, so the 9800GTX+ was again renamed to the GTS250.

and this is not naming all of the many many other cards that came to be from a G92 GPU.

 

[Anusha]

pretty much spot on, nowadays I'd hold GTX and Ultra in roughly the same regard, however they havent made an Ultra card in some time now, last was 8800Ultra I believe.

in between GT and GS there were sometimes 'vanilla' cards which had no suffix/prefix at all, like 6600 and 6800.

and lets not forget XT, used to denote the TOP end ATi cards of the era, it was the reverse with Nvidia, Used only for the bottom of the barrel. I learned that the hard way with an FX5600XT.

XT = Xtra Trash (nVidia)
XT = XTreme (ATI)

 

[TheLaughingMan]

All the BS listed here is why I was so glad ATI finally just put their foot down about all these suffixs. Everyone is stil forgetting how the card makers would add extra stuff to the name after the fact like FTW, GTO, XTX, XXX, SC, OC, etc. It was a nightmare to tell which card was really the best. I am also glad Nvidia kinda followed ATI example and banned a lot of those suffixes as well, but the are starting to loosing up some. I hope the stop in this generation with letting slide since the technical name for the chip already has a three letter prefix. I don't want to see a GTX 460 XXX Edition. Give it a name like other companies and just call it something like GTX 460 Falcon. MSI and HIS already does this based on the cooler used.

 

[wolf]

XT = Xtra Trash (nVidia)
XT = XTreme (ATI)

the 5600XT was about as rubbish as a gfx card can really get, having said that, once I realised just how shit it was, I did not hesitate to overclock the nuts off it as an experiment It was the first Nv card I ever oc'd weird that later on I came apon a Gefore 4 Ti 4600 that was much faster.

EDIT: @ TheLaughingMan, around teh 8800 era I scapped calling cards what the Nv called them and just went for GPU codenames, like G92GT, G80GTX etc... waaay too many 8's and 0's.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

The other thing, today, is that some GTX have the ability to 3 or 4 way SLI, where as GTS is limited to 2 way.

 

[hat]

Dunno. There's so many prefixes and suffixes that both companies have it's tough to keep track. That, and individual retailers like XFX add thier own shit, like XXX editions.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Dunno. There's so many prefixes and suffixes that both companies have it's tough to keep track. That, and individual retailers like XFX add thier own shit, like XXX editions.

But at least both AMD and Nvidia have stopped with all the hoopla. Now it's the manufacturers who are trying to designate their different versions of the same GPU.

 

[Anusha]

But at least both AMD and Nvidia have stopped with all the hoopla. Now it's the manufacturers who are trying to designate their different versions of the same GPU.

I love ati's way of naming cards.

 

[entropy13]

But at least both AMD and Nvidia have stopped with all the hoopla. Now it's the manufacturers who are trying to designate their different versions of the same GPU.

But their naming is still different. With AMD it's Radeon HD xxxx. For Nvidia it's GeForce Gxxx/G xxx/GT xxx/GTS xxx/GTX xxx.

 

[dj-electric]

There is no point in finding any sence in this branding. 8800GT is better than the GTS, but then came the 512MB GTS and...? GTS250 > 9800GTX.
dont search for any logical reason, just look at benchmarks.

 

[wolf]

There is no point in finding any sence in this branding. 8800GT is better than the GTS, but then came the 512MB GTS and...? GTS250 > 9800GTX.
dont search for any logical reason, just look at benchmarks.

this is why I used GPU codenames at the time, for instance.

8800GT is better than the GTS, but then came the 512MB GTS

would be, G92GT is better than G80GTS, then came G92GTS, but I digress, benchmarks will show you the way.

 

[Anusha]

i wonder why nVidia still uses GTX, GTS etc. suffixes. I mean, there is only ONE 480, only ONE 470, only ONE 465, only ONE (actually 2, but they still use GTX for both) 460.... etc.

 

[sonnytiger]

They do this probably to confuse buyers, so that they fall back on that old rule of thumb and just go with price = quality

 

[wolf]

They do this probably to confuse buyers, so that they fall back on that old rule of thumb and just go with price = quality

within a single company (ie Nv) the price you pay generally does mean you get a faster card, given the comparison is drawn from within the same generation.

 

[hat]

It would be nice if they would just make one card... the last time the same card had two suffixes was the 8800, and then they added a 3rd later.