jski

Rumors Cloud the Intel - Nvidia Turf War

He also doesn't know much about the relative strengths of AMD/ATI vs. NVidia GPUs. Currently NVidia is struggling to keep it's leadership and AMD isn't going after that (highest end) market.

Check out:

"The RV770 Story: Documenting ATI's Road to Success"
www.anandtech.com/vide...

and

"AMD has to buy ATI to survive"
www.theinquirer.net/in...

---jski


On Feb 10 06:25 AM Sentinel wrote:

> The only problem with this commentary is that the author fails to
> note that the vast majority of laptops and value priced PCs still
> use Intel's integrated GPUs.
>
> The reason, especially for laptops other than price, is heat. Intel's
> offering generate less heat than ATIs and especially Nvidias. Heat
> kills and heat is a by-product of the amount of voltage a GPU (and
> for that matter CPU) needs to perform at a certain performance vector.
>
>
> Obviously, manufacturers will continue to offer models from phones
> to netbooks to notebooks for different segments of the market looking
> for optimal battery life to high performance. Nvidia will continue
> to dominate all market segments looking for higher performance.
>
>
> But they have never shown a product YET that has a lower thermal
> or power vector than Intel or at a lower wholesale price point.
> Until they do they will not make significant headway against Intel.
>
>
> Tegra, though, may be a different story. As almost always, watch
> Apple. As Apple goes, so will go most of the market.

Intel's Battle with NVIDIA Takes Shape

"However, it [AMD] does not have the deep pockets to produce premium graphics cards". Are you kidding? Ever heard of the Radeon 4870 x2?