Nvidia's inneptitude

[Juan Sanchez]

Well if you head over to www.hardocp.com you'll see what I mean. Well heres the basics.

1)Nvidia blames the decrease in their graphics market share due to the "popularity" on Intel "Extreme" intergrated graphics. They forget to mention that ATI's market share has skyrocketed these past 2 years.

2) and most disturbing, is the fact that Nvidia will only produce ONE (1, UNO, .5+.5=1!!!) Driver Update a year!!!! Meanwhile last week ATI promised 12 updates a year (thats 1 update a month for you math majors).

I know that most of the people here with a shred of common-sense have already moved over to an ATI based video card but this lack of commitment worries me. Will this spill over to the Nforce market (one driver update a year)? What will become of Nvidia's upcomping soundcard? It looks like, to me at least, Nvidia is going to start pulling out of the graphics industry and focus on motherboards and soundcards (Soundstorms beats the heck outa Audigy, and the Nforce 2 kills the KT600). I'm not a fanboy by any means (I went from 3DFX to nVidia and now to ATI, can XGI or S3 be next?) I worry that Nvidia will have difficulty in the MoBo market due to the lack of an Intel license, somthing ATI has and will use. Over all I'm worried for Nvidia and hope that they stop lying to the public and themselves and get their act together. I have 3 Nforce boards in my house and if I lose support for them I wont be happy, also I was looking forward to Nvidia giving Creative a nice punch in the gut with the discreet SoundStorm boards.

Odd coincidence of the day

When 3DFX started of the business was named "3DFX" but later on it was changed to "3dfx".

Simularly when nVidia entered the market they were "nVidia" but now it was quietly (no one seemed to notice, or care, I'm a freak) changed to "Nvidia"

Odd, huh?

[Dazbo666]

I'll stick with my reliable 9500

[tony_j15]

1) lame excuse.

2) No, the article says they will try to have as few as possible. If something comes up, they will put one out.

Looks like nVidia might have some problems, but its too soon to tell. I doubt they would exit the market, but if they do, they will leave a HUGE power vacuum.

[Juan Sanchez]

Wow this thread brings back memories.....

Getting back to the original topic from many months ago....

Nvidia blames the decrease in their graphics market share due to the "popularity" on Intel "Extreme" intergrated graphics. They forget to mention that ATI's market share has skyrocketed these past 2 years.

This is a fair assessment. As much as we like to discuss retail gaming cards, the most money in the graphics market is made in the OEM sector. Simply put, Intel dominates the OEM graphics sector, and the latest few chipsets have greatly extended its lead over standalone graphics manufacturers. Even ATI has serious concerns regarding Intel's growing share of the OEM market.

As to other statements, nVidia does have an Intel board in the R&D department. Give it a few months; it will be on the open market.

As to graphics cards, I have quit gaming (boring) and most OpenGL 3D projects (no free time), so I will likely be holding onto my current Radeon 9600 Pro for a few more months.

Robert Richmond

[Xtreeme]

Yep, 90% of the prebuilt rigs I have worked on (particularly wal-mart special dells) have Intel extreme graphics. Lots of lap tops too. DO they suck. YES. Whats the first thing a person who goes to game says-need a "real" video card. But thing is alot dont game. So never notice. Therefore those that do, learn Extreme Graphics are extremly slow and stupid. Those that dont-dont care and are happy. OEM likes cheap integrated vid that makes majority happy. They are swaying ATI's way some too now. As several prebuilt co's are offering ati packages for couple months now! WooT. ATI's low end ($ and good) offers some new competition for the OEM segment currently and previously held by Intel.