honestly the LTT nonsense on YouTube has pushed me away from keeping up.
Better to watch GamersNexus then. Steve does weekly hardware news recaps (HW news), to keep yourself up-to-the-date with latest hardware.
GamersNexus is also my #1 source regarding hardware news. And component reviews are also very interesting (i like the in-depthness of Steve).
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/@GamersNexus/videos
I haven't heard anything about an 8000 series at all, did I miss something?
RX 8000-series was most likely planned for laptops.
Reddit thread about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1hxr0ai/what_happened_to_the_rx_8000_series/
But as marketing naming goes, hardware giants do all sorts of shenanigans, confusing end users.
Some examples;
AMD Radeon GPUs (from oldest, starting with latest HD-series);
Radeon HD 7000, Radeon 200, Radeon 300, Radeon 400, Radeon 500, Radeon 600, Radeon RX Vega, Radeon VII, Radeon RX 5000, Radeon RX 6000, Radeon RX 7000 and Radeon RX 9000.
That's 5 different naming forms since 2012.
Nvidia GeForce GPUs (from oldest, starting from 2012);
GeForce (GT) 600, GeForce (GT/GTX) 700, GeForce (GT/GTX) 900, GeForce (GT/GTX) 10, Volta, GeForce (GTX) 16, RTX 20, RTX 30, RTX 40 and RTX 50-series.
4 different naming schemes since 2012.
And looks like there is some beef calling GPUs 800 or 8000, since even Nvidia didn't release GTX 800 series back then. GPUs went from 700 to 900-series.
Intel Arc desktop GPUs (from oldest);
Intel Arc A-series (Archmage) and Intel Arc B-series (Battlemage).
Intel is using Latin alphabet and every generation of GPUs, gets another letter in alphabet. Next to come out is Intel Arc C-series (Celestial). After that, Intel Arc D-series (Druid).
But CPU naming also has it's issues.
Intel desktop CPUs (from 2013);
Core i3/i5/i7 4th gen (Haswell), Core i 5th gen (Broadwell), Core i 6th gen (Skylake), Core i 7th gen (Kaby Lake), Core i 8th gen (Coffee Lake), Core i 9th gen (Coffee Lake), Core i 10th gen (Comet Lake), Core i 11th gen (Tiger Lake), Core i 12th gen (Alder Lake), Core i 13th gen (Raptor Lake), Core i 14th gen (Raptor Lake) and Core Ultra Series 2 (Arrow Lake).
Intel had the naming going well, with manageable sense. But starting from Oct'24, with latest generation release, naming was revamped. No more Core i3/i5/i7/i9. Now, we have Core Ultra 5/7/9 Series 2. E.g Core Ultra 5 Series 245K. Next gen to release, would be Core Ultra Series 3, whereby CPU would be: Core Ultra 5 Series 345K.
AMD desktop CPUs (from oldest, avoiding the FX-series, starting from Zen);
Ryzen 1000 (Summit Ridge), Ryzen 2000 (Pinnacle Ridge), Ryzen 3000 (Matisse), Ryzen 4000 APU (Renoir), Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer), Ryzen 7000 (Raphael), Ryzen 8000 APU (Phoenix) and Ryzen 9000 (Granite Ridge).
Starting from Zen, naming is more-or-less manageable. But it has it's holes. E.g Ryzen 6000 (Rembrant) is laptop only.
Did all that naming made sense to you?
Are we just going to have AMD 10K now?
Yes.
Next CPU gen from AMD (Zen6) is Ryzen 10000 (Medusa).
Next GPU gen from AMD (UDNA) naming isn't known yet. But given that CPUs go to 10K, so could be with GPUs.
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