Semi Attacks NVIDIA

Blake · Posted: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:45:33 Post Subject: Semi Attacks NVIDIA

SemiAccurate has recently published an article bashing NVIDIA in true SemiAccurate form. The full article can be found HERE

According to SemiAccurate NVIDIA is killing off many of its line up to include: GTX285, GTX275 and GTX260. I will have to admit that this does sounds like a move NVIDIA will or has made. I also agree with SemiAccurate that these products put NVIDIA in a tough spot as their pricing will be at a disadvantage compared to ATI.

SemiAccurate also continues to push the fact that the recent FERMI sighting was not an actual working card, really you think? If NVIDIA had a full functioning FERMI product do you think Jensen would simply wave it around? No I would have to imagine that if it were a working prototype it would have been installed in a system running multiple demonstrations.

More importantly I think SemiAccurate may be missing the bigger picture, that being what could be NVIDIAâ€™s long term plan. I feel that NVIDIA is not as focused on discrete graphics as it once was. Instead NVIDIA has put a lot of money, time and effort behind development of TEGRA, their mobile solution. Most would agree that discrete graphics has a life span that may be nearing its end as we know it. Sure there will always be a place for the highest end parts in gaming systems but that is not where the money is made. Your mid range graphics cards supply manufactures with income, but with netbooks and notebooks becoming so popular and inexpensive it becomes increasingly difficult to push a $500 dollar computer system with say a 9500GT in it.

So the real question is NVIDIA under bad management or management that is planning ahead, always one step in front of everyone else?

Of course that is my two cents so take it for what it is worth (not much).

acruxksa · Posted: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:55:49 Post Subject:

Nvidia leaves themselves at a distinct disadvantage if they are focusing on integrated graphics because both Intel and AMD/ATI have chipset solutions and integrated graphics solutions. Nvidia is sort of left out in the cold and at the mercy of both companies to provide cpu's for their Chipsets and IGP's. Proof of this can be seen with intel's aggressive pricing when their Atom processor is coupled with their own chipset/igp solution.

jedihobbit · As of 02/01/11

I've tripped across this article through several sites and the response has all been the same......... Charlie Demerjian is a not so well disguised ATI fanboy and spends a good precentage of his time with disinformation to bash nvidia.

BTW I'm not an nvidia fanboy either......I run nvidia because the cuda drives work better for folding. YsSMN actually started with an 4870 1GB but had issues with the drivers.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:37:06 Post Subject:

Fanboi or not... Just how blatantly fake that sample is has to raise questions about credibility. People with half a clue obviously weren't supposed to get such an up close look at it.

If that part is bogus, why believe anything else until it is proven conclusively?!?

jedihobbit · As of 02/01/11

It seems credibility is something that site lacks beyoud his "followers". Bad Air