this nvidia PR isn't talking logic like there amd competition dous. about actual products instead they talk cheap words insulting people like me who actualy would rather choose an amd graphics card over a nvida these days because nvidia gets to much money only for its name not preformance money wise. yes i think the man might be affraid nvidia will get some back fire soon. the 4870 promisses to be fast energy efficient might be a little slower then nvidias we dont know we didnt see benchmarks yet. but nvidias gtx280 might just be another 2900xt with 300 watts power consumption driving 65nm to the limit. i also read there failure rate of the sillicon with this chip is about 60% means its price wont drop much under 600 dollars while amds ati card is much cheaper about half the price. nvidias pr should realize they got a worthy competition right now. better then 2 years ago

Mr. Taylor should of course have been a politician come spin-doctor.

Of course the only disadvantage with that is that he would have to get elected by the populous en masse. 

And therein lies the problem, he would never get any votes. 

The image conjured in my mind by Nvidia's ranting is a child being held under water scrabbling for breath, and occassionally being allowed up for air, whereby the ranting and bitching starts over.

Of course the hands holding them under belong to Intel, while AMD/ATi just sit on the side lines cheering.

Market share is one thing however, hyundai have a bigger market share than rolls royce in the number of units sold. It doesn't mean a hyundai is better than a Roller...


Well both GPU and CPU upgrade deliver boost of performance, but not necesary in the same direction. U rather have a Server with a cra**y CPU and a good GPU??? i dont think so!!

"Feel the power of the Powerpoint slides!!"

Quote from every firm's PR in the business :P

Yep, James, upgrading the gpu makes a massive difference. Just look at the hooge gaping difference between the 7600 and the 8600. oh, sorry, forgot, hould have cherry picked a better example lol.

Meyba it were a mishtake to ever grant favoured graphics status to Graphzilla. Now they want to shove off us all and give us the SLIp. When will cowboy Roy learn that no man is an Island. Unless, of course, The Isle of Man. 
The UK, particularly, The INQUIRER, renders an accurate view of the state of Intel, Nvidia and DAAMIT (respectively: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe). To see everything as Roy paints it, would be sieving the world through the chronicles of Nvidia sunshades; "obscenely the wrong way round." SLIps, Snickers, and Petti-rants; Taylor stretches 'em all. He'd best get his head out of the wardrobe before the rubbish & refuse binmen excise curbing-law on his TWIMTBP. Great Laird Lion High King Peter! As soon as I can plug me kit in to a frigging Green-farce card, and suss all my world's pudding shares, then I'd aver not be needing a CPU, and "Hail, hail, the Nvidic OS!"

And that's why all games run so fast and beautiful with software renders :p

Let's take a look at the current situation for Intel. The Quad's / Duals are nice chips, very nice in fact, but you get more of a boost to your Aero/Games if you drop in a 100$-300$ ATI / Nvidia card than if you spend 1k dollars more on your CPU.

Is the CPU dead? No. Is the GPU dead? Absolutely not.

"Chipzilla, helpfully illustrated by a big red cross. Upgrading your processor is 'Clearly the best improvement for your money', says Intel's slide deck."

It would be if they decided to keep a bloody chipset compatible with a range of chips over a longer period than a year. As it stands it's much better to buy the most expensive/reasonable performance CPU and mobo to go with it and wait a few years before upgrading both CPU and mobo.

So, it may, in theory, be cheaper to buy a CPU and get better performance but in reality upgrading an already decently mid-high CPU will not get you much of a performance bonus in the real world and could end up costing you double if you have to buy a new motherboard as well.

AMD is addressing similar concerns about balanced platforms, just without the rant. Check out Pat Morehead's blog. He is their VP Marketing.

http://blogs.amd.com/patmoorhead/default.aspx

I don't think anyone can call themselves cynical when talking about Intel.