The Worst Naming Schemes in Computing

So this video was meant to be implying that AMD's new mobile lineup naming scheme was a joke but then I realised Nvidia and Intel deserved some criticism as well. Don't even get me started about monitors

And YES, before you get angry and threaten me in some way for 'getting mad about names', this video IS a bit jokey. Is a bit April Fools-y. But also something worth getting annoyed about.

[LittleWizard]

The perfect naming scheme: Take the complete datasheet of your hardware, pull it through a hash function and you have a perfectly unreadable name wich totally makes sense.

[oatsaredelicious]

I saw AMDs New naming scheme explained like three times and I still don't know what they were smoking while coming up with this.

[UchihaMadara]

About AMD and their "Portfolio Model Year",

Not sure if this is elaborate, but each year is divisible by its respective "series" number:
2023/7=289
2024/8=253
2025/9=225

But wait, there's more!

The digits of every year also add up to its "series" number:
2+0+2+3=7
2+0+2+4=8
2+0+2+5=9

If they were to follow this pattern, the 10 series would have to come out in 2080 at the earliest.

[fregus.]

"The great thing about computer standards is there's so many to choose from!"

[kokaboba]

Samsung already figured this out. They skipped the s11 to go to s20 representing the year it came out in 2020, and then the s21 for 2021 and so on. This naming scheme is indefinite so long as years continue to pass.

[ndrew]

2:26 The "XFX RX XTX" is the funniest thing I've heard all April Fool's day, thank you Philip

[punkser]

they should name gaming equipment the same way they name American cars. i would certainly buy the new nvidia GPU if they named it "The Hellthrottler" or something similar

[NotJustBikes]

I used to work in the Radeon department at ATI (pre-AMD) and the "marketing name" as we called it, was totally disconnected from the name we used.

We were normally working on products that were nearly 2 years away from release, so there were many times where we'd have meetings about something that launched and we'd have Abbott and Costello level conversations where nobody knew what old (to us) product we were talking about, as we tried to convert marketing names back into engineering codenames from 2 years ago.

[HeisenbergFam]

5:34 "I left more confused than when I started" perfect description of trying to understand this conundrum, IT has a whole new terminology and rules of its own

[endlesnights]

NVidia use to have a suffix of "m" for laptop variant GPUs. They stopped doing this, so now they have both desktop and laptop GPUs with the same name while they have fairly different specifications.

[monad_tcp]

One trick I usually try to use is try to discover the real internal number used by the engineers, they usually are a lot more consistent, except when the entire division is fired.

[Nateyo]

I haven been learning about CPUs since 2018. I have learned that the best way of dealing with this is to just not trust the names and simply look up the specs. At least their official websites explain enough.

[jeikobu__]

I would simply give every CPU an UUID. Imagine buying the newest Intel

[VADemon]

For server EPYCs I felt it was done on purpose to confuse, so only the sales people knew what to recommend to puzzled customers.
For mobile laptops? Seems they actually want to bring it to this space too.

A surprisingly good "not serious" video!

[thermz]

"Have the outline of steve's hair burned into your retinas" - you got me, can't watch enough of tech jesus

[reptarien]

The amount of times that someone tells me their computer is still *super high tech* because they have an i7 cpu, when their computer is probably nearing 10 years old, is enough to make me agree with you completely.

[precsion]

The fact that I thought you made up the naming scheme for AMD at first until I looked it up
has me doubting there was even one combined brain cell in the room when they chose that system

[UncleLayne]

The fact that AMD's new mobile processors came with a decoder ring for the press really says a lot about society

[hedgeearthridge]

I'm a big nerd for firearms and weaponry in general, what's funny is a letter or two with a few numbers can be surprisingly easy to remember, like Intel's GPU names. One letter with a number gives you 260 possibilities, a letter and two numbers gives you 2600, etc. Do it twice and you can convey a lot of meaning, take M4A1 for example: approved model number 4, with approved variation number 1. New from AMD: the A1A1 CPU; Architecture, Generation, Model, Variant. Idk something like that.

[SnareGG]

I absolutely love the Intel ARC naming scheme, its fun to imagine what every letter could be