[ethbro]

> Without a clear and intuitive versioning scheme it can be confusing and time consuming to make sense of a product line. And that gets frustrating if it keeps changing.

This is a case of Nvidia working with that sentiment rather than against it.

They were roasted by review sites previously for co-mingling architectures in the same numbering generation. So this time, they didn't.

TU106 was far too big of a chip to die-harvest low enough for a true volume x60 budget part.

Add in all the non-graphics acceleration hardware that needed to be cut to hit price and... Nvidia didn't feel this could be called an RTX 20xx part.

The 16xx is awkward, but it's the least bad choice.