ssj12 said:
Well, Nvidia's main market isnt even the genreal consumer, its the professional market. Basically their Quadro series GPUs. So really, their drivers will come when they come. They still need to add SLi support for BFBC2's beta. |
Professional may be the most profitable, but they need desktop to make up sales volume and pay off the fixed costs of design. They could not survive if they just concentrated on their current professional market, even if they dropped all desktop development, departments and employees.
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What if there was no Nvidia? This is a serious possibility; they've all but discontinued the GTX260 and above (stock levels are very low), the lower-end cards can't compete (GT210 v. 5450, GT220 v. 5570, GT240 v. 5670) and in the middle they're still selling the GTS 250 which is a G80 based card (though die shrunk) from 2006. If there's no replacements in sight, how can they turn a profit?
AMD are trying their best given the size of the Linux market for them. Their closed driver, while flawed, is a lot better than 3 years ago, and the open driver is doing very well for the resources it has. Admittedly Nvidia is better, but closed-source as you know.
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