What is GT?

[PeteRoy]

What does the GT mean in cards like 6800GT?

And it's variations like 7800 GTX

And there was Geforce 2 GTS back in the day.

What is GT?

Thank you.

 

[Bona Fide]

It's just two letters that give a "powerful, fast" type effect. I think it's based off the "GT" used in cars sometimes.

 

[Megatomic]

GTS back in the GF2 days meant gigatexel shader. Today it's just a marketing term to denote a higher end product than a card without the moniker.

 

[PeteRoy]

I thought GT might mean Great?

 

[Megatomic]

Only if you want it to.

 

[Sniper82]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
I thought GT might mean Great?

Probably means nothing. Like someone else here said about it being used it cards. Normally for example a Grand Am GT or Mustang GT usually means its more powerful than non GT cars(one has V6 the other V8 or at least I think). So it's really just saying the 6800GT is more powerful than the plain 6800. I guess it's just the only thing ppl could come up with that sounds good.

But 6800Ultra beats them both.

Could mean Greater Than if it means anything? But Greater Than what?

 

[ElFenix]

it's marketing speak that means nothing. i guarantee you that 'GTS' was thought up before 'gigatexel shader'

 

[corkyg]

In cars, "GT" has always stood for "Gran Turismo." Doesn't make much sense for a video card.

 

[Rankor]

Originally posted by: corkyg
In cars, "GT" has always stood for "Gran Turismo." Doesn't make much sense for a video card.

For the price when these first came out, they may as well be the Gran Turismo of cards.

 

[formulav8]

Umm, I believe the GT in cars means - Grand Touring, not Turismo. At least the Mustangs, Pontiac's and such called it Grand Touring.



Jason

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: formulav8
Umm, I believe the GT in cars means - Grand Touring, not Turismo. At least the Mustangs, Pontiac's and such called it Grand Touring.



Jason

you don't let anything get by you

 

[Hacp]

They have enough marketing. A total newbie to graphics would expect a 256 Meg 9250SE(suckers edition) to beat a 128 Meg 6600GT.

 

[Bona Fide]

Originally posted by: formulav8
Umm, I believe the GT in cars means - Grand Touring, not Turismo. At least the Mustangs, Pontiac's and such called it Grand Touring.



Jason

Guess what turismo means?

 

[suicidalpigeon]

in this case its just a label for organizing.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Most people associated the GT with cars meaning it's better.

Most people see a GT on a video card and think they're like cars. It's got a GT on it, that must mean it's better.

Simple marketing.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Gots Towel



"A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta?wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat?wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes?any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it ? win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: formulav8
Umm, I believe the GT in cars means - Grand Touring, not Turismo. At least the Mustangs, Pontiac's and such called it Grand Touring.



Jason

no, in fact for the pontiac gtos it meant "Gran Turismo Omologato"

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
What does the GT mean in cards like 6800GT?

And it's variations like 7800 GTX

And there was Geforce 2 GTS back in the day.

What is GT?

Thank you.

On top of that, wtf is XL on X800? X800XtraLarge.
Supersize me.

 

[OVERKILL]

Grand Touring is what it stood for as long as i can remember

 

[PeteRoy]

And what about GTX?

 

[suicidalpigeon]

xtreme(incredibly overused name used to describe any product)?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
And what about GTX?

Grand Turismo/Touring eXtreme!!!111!!!1!, obviously.

The original "Gran Turismo" (or "GT") auto races were held in Italy, where they speak... wait for it... Italian. 'Gran Turismo' is translated to English as "Grand Touring".

 

[suicidalpigeon]

Text for the people who may start asking random acronyms in this thead.

edit: and Text for all those bqq ones.

 

[Sforsyth]

X800XL might be like ford truck XL 's.

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: Sforsyth
X800XL might be like ford truck XL 's.

:beer: