I Think Nvidia are on the way out. Whenever the market starts talking about raw frame rates and speed as the defining benchmark the winds of change are blowing. Concentrating on speed killed 3dfx. I see a great similarity now with Nvidia Vs Radeon. Raw speed is never the key. when 3dfx concentrated on raw speed issues like pass-thru cables and enforced full screen acceleration became glaring errors. With Nvidia you have Cards taking up a pci slot and fans that sound like lawnmowers. When a company starts to lose its advantage over the market they look for something they can put in a press release and say "we are better". and thats what benchmarks are for but by concentrating on that ina vain attempt to say "we are better" just means your not innovating enough and someone will come up with a better product
I may be wau off here but it seems to me if your going to market this sort of product for the consumer market the point to emphasize would be the potential to pump out out millions of dirt cheap little processors exactly the same in manufacturing. and then apply the relevant "program" and turn them into a control chip for a coffeemaker or alarm clock or whatever
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I Think Nvidia are on the way out. Whenever the market starts talking about raw frame rates and speed as the defining benchmark the winds of change are blowing. Concentrating on speed killed 3dfx. I see a great similarity now with Nvidia Vs Radeon. Raw speed is never the key. when 3dfx concentrated on raw speed issues like pass-thru cables and enforced full screen acceleration became glaring errors. With Nvidia you have Cards taking up a pci slot and fans that sound like lawnmowers. When a company starts to lose its advantage over the market they look for something they can put in a press release and say "we are better". and thats what benchmarks are for but by concentrating on that ina vain attempt to say "we are better" just means your not innovating enough and someone will come up with a better product
I may be wau off here but it seems to me if your going to market this sort of product for the consumer market the point to emphasize would be the potential to pump out out millions of dirt cheap little processors exactly the same in manufacturing. and then apply the relevant "program" and turn them into a control chip for a coffeemaker or alarm clock or whatever
If only we cold discover linux source being used by microsoft. The war would be won.