My apologies for bringing insane US politics into a non-political post but I saw an example of this just today.
Don’t apologise. People who don’t like mention of any politics are insufferable.
The Lemmy Tesseract fiasco was just another example of that 😅
Not Apple though. Apple just hand waves the numbers.
Apple only cares about incrementing the number next to the product name by 1
Apple does the thing with screens where they cycle between more shatter resistant and more scratch resistant and tout “3x more shatter/scratch resistant than the previous model”
typical apple tactics.
Wait actually?
Yup. It’s a thing.
Don’t forget “up to…”
False. They also stick fake numbers in there with zero regard for consistency.
That’s a difference of 100.000.000Hz, so it is totally legit to show it like this. /s
just keep adding decimal places until you see a difference
I also love meaningless things like
“3x more effective at remowing plaques” or “10x kore tougher on stains”. Yeah sure buddy it is…
very odd its not going 3.18, 3.211115, 3.222224, 3.233333 must be before the ipo announcement
It depends on what are you are trying to compare
YearFlagship ModelStandard FP32 Compute Power 2008NVIDIA GTX 280~0.9 TFLOPS
2010NVIDIA GTX 580~1.5 TFLOPS
2012NVIDIA GTX 680~3.0 TFLOPS
2014NVIDIA GTX 980~4.6 TFLOPS
2016NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti~11.3 TFLOPS
2018NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti~13.4 TFLOPS
2020NVIDIA RTX 3090~35.5 TFLOPS
2022NVIDIA RTX 4090~82.6 TFLOPS
2025NVIDIA RTX 5090~104.8 TFLOPS
I guess a good way to view it is, a stand mixer, a hand mixer and a whisk. All have purposes… but you have to be using the right tool for the right workload to get the best performance.
It isn’t better to scramble 6 eggs with a stand mixer before you put them in the pan, just use a fork. Doesn’t mean the stand mixer won’t blow the fork away when making ground beef.
