[Poseidon]

Originally Posted by Miscguy

Screw the letters. Why do we need 8 versions of what amounts to the same card? Oh you added 2.345302 pixel shader support to the X800 L9HF3 while the x800 HLTRN only has 1.3535674, i see now. Fuck that, revise the card and improve it enough to warrent a new number. This XT, Xl buisness is for the birds. I no longer know what im ranting about, it seems to be just pure hate and spite at this point.

I think its based off selling the product... essentially it is the same product but but more overclocked (or improved slightly structurely). They will sell the normal card to people on a budget, whilst they still get a decent enough card to play the upto date games. They make the XT, XL, Pro etc for people willing to spend more money to squeeze the most out of their card. Each one differs in performance and therefor differs in price. So there is a high range card to suit a range of budgets/gamers.