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Titanium

...instead of silicon?!? Or instead of something else?

That's interesting. Does that make it faster, cheaper, both?

It's just a name .
It's faster than non-Ti version
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/356941-33-what-means-video-cards-example-670ti

...lame. I guess it is sort of like the old (and finally failing) Titanium CPUs then?

On a side note: I still find that lawsuit HP filed against Oracle for ending future software support laughable and absurd, but never mind that.

Quote:...lame. I guess it is sort of like the old (and finally failing) Titanium CPUs then?

Itanium, not titanium.

Back in the day nvidia used to prefix low budget cards with MX and high budget cards with TI for market branding. For example the Geforce 4 series was in reality two different series of graphics cards, the geforce 4 MX and the geforce 4 TI.

List of Geforce 4 series graphics cards from 2002-2003 ranked from cheapest/slowest to most expensive/fastest:
MX 420
MX 440 SE
MX 4000
MX 440
MX 460
TI 4200
TI 4400
TI 4800 SE
TI 4600
TI 4800

The TI branding started with the geforce 2 series and continued through the geforce 3 and geforce 4 series. They stopped using it when geforce fx was released. The TI name has resurfaced recently as an attempt by their marketing department to increase sales by using a name that loyal long time customers are familiar with and have associated with successful/popular high quality products. Similar to how AMD has brought back the old FX name with their new bulldozer based cpus to evoke our memories of the good old days when the name FX was associated with a high quality product that everybody loved (athlon 64 FX was often shortened by users to athlon fx or just fx).

...ive been reading it wrong all this time... Fail

Thanks, I get what the TI is for now.

Back to original topic - performance difference between linux and windows with nVidia cards is almost non-existent, some games will run 2-3 fps faster here or there. Compatibility issues - well there's a few bugs with opengl and d3d9 that haven't been fixed yet, for example Kirby's shadow bug in OpenGL (minor bug) or black screen in Onechanbara and another game, don't remember which one (serious bugs), i haven't used Dolphin in windows much for last two years but i remember 2 or 3 games crashing with any d3d backends and working fine with OpenGL.